BBirgitadded this to Thought ProvokingThe Brain Can Learning a Foreign Language Prevent Dementia?TIME - Richard Roberts and Roger J. Kreuz / MIT Press ReaderYou may have heard that learning another language is one method for preventing or at least postponing the onset of dementia. Dementia refers to the loss of cognitive abilities, and one of its most common
Emoji 34: Emoji are Gesture Because Internet — Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguisticsovercast.fm Emoji make a lot of headlines, but what happens when you actually drill down into the data for how people integrate emoji into our everyday messages? …
Philosophy Mini-Heapdailynous.com - Justin Weinberg • “Sometimes, people who lack philosophical training write books and essays on philosophy. These books and essays are usually very bad.” — Michael …
Brussels Zone 30 to become the norm across the Brussels Regionvrt.be - Colin Clapson The Flemish greens, liberals and the social democrat list One.Brussels-SP.A are teaming up with the Francophone socialists, greens and the Brussels …
BernaOadded this to LanguageLanguage “Lexis on Steroids”: Corpus Linguistics receives mixed reception at the Sixth Circuitnatlawreview.com Sixth Circuit judges have taken an interest in “corpus linguistics.” At a recent gathering in northern Kentucky, three Sixth Circuit judges engaged …
Outlook Magazineadded this to Outlook IndiaBangalore LTI to acquire Bengaluru-based Lymbycoutlookindia.com New Delhi, Jul 17 Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI) Wednesday said it will acquire Bengaluru-based advanced analytics company Lymbyc for an enterprise …
Laurentian University Laurentian University | My experience as an international studentlaurentian.ca It’s difficult to choose your university after high school, especially when you want to go to another country, because it involves a double task, …
Mashable Indiaadded this to TECHNOLOGYPhotosynthesis Spoiler Alert! There's An AI Tool That Will Save You From SpoilersMashable - Afiya QureshiNothing can be more frustrating than accidentally reading a spoiler of your favourite show finale before watching it! The internet today is replete of cinematic spoilers that ruin the complete experience
RRoryadded this to RORYLanguage LINGUISTICS IN TAIWAN - ISABELLE BRILspreaker.com - Society Bytes Radio ISABELLE BRIL is a linguist. She completed her PhD in Linguistics in 1994. She was a Lecturer at the University of Tours in France, and subsequently …
Montreal Gazetteadded this to Montreal Gazette OpinionOpinion (Canada) Lise Ravary: Culture is the cure for two solitudesmontrealgazette.com - Lucinda Chodan, Montreal Gazette Last week’s column — "Paul Houde: Of course you know him, right?" — ended this way: Read More
BernaOadded this to LanguageEtymology The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 7/12/19merriam-webster.com - 12 Jul 2019 Welcome to The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise, in which we look over some of the words that tickled your curiosity this past week. …
Long Island, NY New dean in town at Adelphilibn.com - Bernadette Starzee Andy Atzert – Dean of the College of Professional and Continuing Studies, Adelphi University Andy Atzert is the new dean of the Adelphi University …
Mediumadded this to The Best of MediumLanguage Learning Speaking 2 Languages to Your Child Isn’t Enough to Make Them Bilingualmedium.com - Elizabeth Preston There are plenty of reasons to raise a child to be bilingual. Speaking a language tied to their family origins can help a kid stay close to their …
Passionfish12added this to Ruh Şarkı Sözleri Poetry Collocation—Jai! Jai!—Something Inside: A Playlist for the July/August 2019 Issue by Hari Alluripoetryfoundation.org - Poetry Foundation For our July/August 2019 playlist, we asked contributor Hari Alluri, whose poem “Clairvoyance” and whose invocation “Ancestral Memory” appear in the …
Language Learning Who's Earning the Seal of Biliteracy? In One State, It's Mostly English-Learnersedweek.org - Corey Mitchell California's statewide push to honor students who master a second language is growing—and English-language learners are benefiting the most. In the …
RFI Englishadded this to CultureBilingualism Contemporary dance piece ‘Multiple-s’ crosses language and other barriersRFI - Rosslyn Hyams in Avignon In a search for answers about his own life and trajectory, Burkina Faso dancer and choreographer Salia Sanou invites an older colleague, a writer and …
Language Semi-supervised machine-learning classification of materials synthesisnature.com - Haoyan Huo, Ziqin Rong, Olga Kononova, Wenhao Sun, Tiago Botari, Tanjin He, Vahe Tshitoyan, Gerbrand Ceder Jain, A., Shin, Y. & Persson, K. A. Computational predictions of energy materials using density functional theory. Nat. Rev. Mater. 1, 15004 …
Tom Falkadded this to NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSINGVocabulary Scraping and Sentiment Analysis of 1.5 Million Audible Reviewstowardsdatascience.com - Toby Manders In the first part of this project, we collected and explored a dataset containing, among other fields, the ASIN, number of ratings and an individual …
African Languages Teachers want inclusion in African literacy developmentenca.com - www.enca.com JOHANNESBURG - Concerned black teachers have written an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa. The letter highlights issues about research and …
BernaOadded this to LanguageEtymology Word of the Day: Churlishmerriam-webster.com 2 : marked by a lack of civility or graciousness : surly It is easy to understand how churlish has come to mean "vulgar," "surly," and "intractable"—if …
U.S. Politics A war of wordswashingtonexaminer.com - www.washingtonexaminer.com The title of Peter Martin's new book, The Dictionary Wars, is not a stretch by any definition. This deeply researched volume about the heady days when …
Daily Mirroradded this to Daily MirrorBoris Johnson Boris Johnson slammed for saying English 'too often' not first language in UKmirror.co.uk - David Hughes The would-be PM was immediately criticised by Welsh and Gaelic-speaking politicians who accused him of 'arrogance' Boris Johnson has come under fire …
MMichaeladded this to CareerGrammar Have You Eaten Grandma?: Or, the Life-Saving Importance of Correct Punctuation, Grammar, and Good Englishpublishersweekly.com Self-styled “language obsessive and... punctuation perfectionist” Brandreth (Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper), a mystery novelist, BBC …
Language Analysis: The Amazon synod and the English languagecatholicworldreport.com - Catholic News Agency Vatican City, Jul 4, 2019 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- Three months from now, the bishops of the Amazonian region will meet for a regional synod that has …
HHelen McKissockadded this to Language & LiteraturePlay buttonEuropean Union The English language is evolving – here's how it will change after BrexitThe Conversation UK - Emma Seddon Britain is facing an uncertain future and an uneasy relationship with Europe after Brexit. Among other things, the country’s woeful inability to …
Language Flèchefaber.co.uk - Mary Jean Chan Flèche (the French word for ‘arrow’) is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan’s young adult years, when she …
Afrikaans Their fears are my fears - Lesufi on critics, education and languagenews24.com - Sheldon Morais Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi says people on the opposite ends of the spectrum of the debate about language and the integration of schools …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMATLAB OpenSim - Event Detailsstanford.edu - opensim.stanford.edu Learn to use state-of-the-art direct collocation optimal control methods to track simulations, run predictive simulations, and more. No numerical …
nnkitaadded this to LearningPsychology Five Unusual, Evidence-Based Ways To Get Better At A New Languagebps.org.uk The last time I tried to learn a foreign language, I was living in an Italian suburb of Sydney. My hour a week at a local Italian class was …
Adam Richardsonadded this to Language Information Security 'Human Side-Channels': Behavioral Traces We Leave Behinddarkreading.com How writing patterns, online activities, and other unintentional identifiers can be used in cyber offense and defense. As we move throughout our …
