Learning another language can take years of commitment and effort amid our busy lives. A new online learning innovation pairing students face-to-face with native speakers is helping to speed up progress because it is tailored ...
Education
Dec 4, 2019
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A team of researchers with the University of Sussex, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and the University of Lyon, has found that dogs are able to detect minor differences in spoken human words. In their paper ...
Financial transactions between people who speak different native languages are more common than ever with more than one in five Americans speaking a language other than English at home. But finding a price that buyers and ...
Economics & Business
Oct 30, 2019
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There's an old Punch magazine cartoon depicting a rather typical business boardroom. The group in the illustration includes one woman and several men, with the chairman saying, "That's an excellent suggestion, Miss Triggs. ...
Social Sciences
Oct 29, 2019
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Even though they are not needed to make the specific sounds, parts of Mandarin Chinese speakers' faces—their eyebrows and lips—mimic the rising and falling pitch that distinguishes one word spelled exactly the same from ...
Social Sciences
Sep 24, 2019
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Women gave more than half of TED talks in the first half of 2017, up from less than one-third in 2006, according to a new study published in Political Research Exchange. But the German research team also found that ethnic ...
Social Sciences
Sep 2, 2019
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"Alexa, what are the symptoms of flu?"
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 10, 2019
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Britain is facing an uncertain future and an uneasy relationship with Europe after Brexit. Among other things, the country's woeful inability to learn languages has been raised as a key stumbling block—with the decline ...
Social Sciences
Jul 8, 2019
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I've been grilling for years, and love it. I've also been cleaning grills for years, and hate it. The past few years, I've used a power washer with good results but it's still a chore. The Grillbot has been out for a few ...
Consumer & Gadgets
May 29, 2019
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For decades, more women have been entering male-dominated educational fields and careers. The proportion of men in female-dominated areas, on the other hand, has remained mostly unchanged. Now, gender gaps in female-dominated ...
Social Sciences
Apr 30, 2019
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