On a global scale, we are reading like never before and are spending more and more time glued to a screen. In fact, we read digital media every single day, whether it is on Facebook or in discussion forums. In total, there ...
Social Sciences
Sep 21, 2017
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Drivers find it difficult to ignore a ringing phone but they do ignore the dangers, with a new QUT study revealing almost 50 per cent believe locating and answering a ringing phone is not as risky as talking and texting.
Social Sciences
Sep 7, 2017
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Sneeze next to the Katla volcano, goes the joke in this Icelandic village, and a seismologist in Reykjavik will analyze the disturbance.
Environment
Sep 2, 2017
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Montana government leaders plan to create rules for when and how to preserve text messages after a news organization's public-records request exposed the lack of a policy to retain the messages that have become a regular ...
Security
Aug 29, 2017
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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is making it easier for art lovers to see its extensive collection, no matter where they are in the world.
Other
Aug 2, 2017
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Men could be held responsible for the failure to produce children as far back as medieval times, a new study of medical and religious texts has shown.
Archaeology
Jul 27, 2017
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What if fictional places in books, such as Middlemarch, Treasure Island, Barsetshire and Gormenghast, could be generated as maps and even 3D visualisations out of the text itself?
Social Sciences
Jun 15, 2017
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A mediaeval Irish monk was able to switch effortlessly between Irish and Latin when writing a book. This phenomenon of code switching is common to all eras; we switch effortlessly between Dutch and English nowadays too. Nike ...
Social Sciences
Jun 9, 2017
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Texting while driving will soon be illegal in Texas.
Other
Jun 6, 2017
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The National Security Agency announced Friday it would end its controversial practice of sweeping up any email or text message an American exchanges with someone overseas that makes reference to a real target of NSA surveillance.
Security
Apr 29, 2017
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