In the remote Andean community of El Cisne in Ingapirca, Ecuador, one of the first things you'll notice is children's laughter. In a courtyard, women gather with their children to trace ancestral knowledge and memories—and ...
Social Sciences
May 4, 2022
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A new study finds that U.S. residents struggle to understand terms frequently used by scientists to describe climate change. Study participants said some of the terms were too complex to understand. Other terms were misunderstood ...
Environment
Aug 26, 2021
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Multi-disciplinary researchers at The University of Manchester have helped develop a powerful physics-based tool to map the pace of language development and human innovation over thousands of years—even stretching into ...
Social Sciences
Jan 27, 2021
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It lacks the drama of a shape-shifting alien creature, but another threat looms over the prospect of generations-long, interstellar space travel: Explorers arriving on Xanadu could face problems communicating with previous ...
Space Exploration
Jul 6, 2020
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Science gets a lot of respect these days. Unfortunately, it's also getting a lot of competition from misinformation. Seven in 10 Americans think the benefits from science outweigh the harms, and nine in 10 think science and ...
Social Sciences
Mar 9, 2020
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The English language is full of phrases—from "bogged down" to "feet of clay" and "dirt cheap"—that reflect how we appreciate the diversity of soil, but value it little.
Earth Sciences
May 21, 2019
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When convincing management to consider advocating for a particular social issue, employees may think it is wise to focus on the benefits to the bottom line but making a moral argument may be a better strategy, as long as ...
Social Sciences
Feb 4, 2019
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Images of extreme weather and alarming headlines about climate change have become common. Last month, dire predictions about our warming planet from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were ...
Social Sciences
Nov 27, 2018
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Language changes are happening in southwest Kansas, a Kansas State University linguistics team has found. People in Liberal, Kansas, and other communities are developing a distinct accent, and the language change is a sign ...
Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2018
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A new study of language and social change in post-apartheid South Africa demonstrates that gender is a more powerful determinant than class among black university students. The study "Class, gender, and substrate erasure ...
Social Sciences
Jun 15, 2017
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