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  Amy Haggstrom

  

  ‘By preserving the language, you reinforce communities’: a school saving one of Louisiana’s oldest dialects

  Guardian US - Guardian staff reporter

  Preserving Indian French, as community members call it, has taken on new urgency as climate-related hurricanes and coastal erosion threaten to displace the tribe

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  Amy Haggstrom

  

  How Stories Help Us Make Sense of the World

  mit.edu - N.J. Enfield

  Language doesn't just inform; it transcends individual understanding to construct shared references and shape collective perspectives. When I first …

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  Amy Haggstrom

  

  Noam Chomsky Explains Why Nobody Is Really a Moral Relativist, Even Michel Foucault

  openculture.com - Colin Marshall

  Noam Chomsky made his name as a linguist, which is easy to forget amid the wide range of subjects he has addressed, and continues to address, in his …

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  Amy Haggstrom

  

  ‘I couldn’t believe the data’: how thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making

  The Guardian - David Robson

  Research shows people who speak another language are more utilitarian and flexible, less risk-averse and egotistical, and better able to cope with traumatic memories

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  Amy Haggstrom

  Disability rights activist Adam Pearson on the lasting effect of eugenics

  sciencefocus.com - Amy Arthur

  Co-host of the new BBC documentary Eugenics: Science’s Greatest Scandal, speaks to us about making the documentary and discovering what his life …

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  Amy Haggstrom

  

  Tell Your Story: Teaching Students to Become World-Changing Thinkers and Writers

  ascd.org

  Learn how to increase students' skills as writers and storytellers with an innovative, inclusive, and empowering framework for teaching writing that …