This week, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a live address on prime-time television where he repeatedly used the words "violent," "illegal aliens" and "crisis" to arouse public fear. While Trump's speech was based largely ...
Environment
Jan 11, 2019
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A new study from Duke University and Fudan University in China is the first to estimate how much Chinese residential electricity consumption would increase due to climate change. It's a lot.
Environment
Dec 24, 2018
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Global warming has been attributed to persistent increases in atmospheric greenhouse gasses (GHGs), especially in CO2, since 1870, the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Nevertheless, the upward trend in global mean ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2018
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The OECD consistently finds girls perform significantly better than boys in reading. This gap can also be observed across the Australian NAPLAN reading data.
Education
Oct 10, 2018
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Since the advent of the industrial revolution in the early 19th century, increases in greenhouse gas emissions are thought by scientists to have steadily driven the increase in global-mean surface temperature, known as global ...
Environment
Aug 29, 2018
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"To be or not to be?" Hamlet asked aloud as he pondered the meaning of life.
Social Sciences
Jul 17, 2018
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Emoticons, irregular spellings and exclamation points in text messages aren't sloppy or a sign that written language is going down the tubes—these "textisms" help convey meaning and intent in the absence of spoken conversation, ...
Social Sciences
Nov 14, 2017
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Any child (or spouse) who has been scolded for their tone of voice – such as shouting or being sarcastic – knows that the way you speak to someone can be just as important as the words that you use. Voice artists and ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 29, 2017
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How do we detect the meaning of music? We may gain some insights by looking at an unlikely source, sign language, a newly released linguistic analysis concludes.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 16, 2017
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Earlier this year, Christopher Manning, a Stanford professor of computer science and of linguistics, was named the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning, thanks to a gift from the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation.
Computer Sciences
May 31, 2017
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