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...Lowdown: Everett is a linguistics professor at Illinois State University, and in addition to cultural observations like the ones above, he spends a lot of time reveling in his passion for sentences and structure. The Pirahãs language contains just eight consonants and three vowels; their repetitive staccato sounds like indecipherable gibberish to just about everyone else in the world except for Everett. Until he came along, no one outside of the tribe had ever become fluent in Pirahã. A few years ago, Everett made waves in the linguistics world when he challenged Noam Chomsky's idea that...
...Clinton almost lost his presidency because of an affair! It makes me sick to think that Bush will stay in office until Jan. 20. Remove him now, and let Obama start to repair the damage that has been inflicted on the U.S. and the rest of the world. Those eight years under Bush have not only been wasted, they have reversed the geopolitical evolution of the human race. Alexander Schneider, BRIXLEGG, AUSTRIA...
...principal investigators Gottfried Schlaug, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Ellen Winner, a professor of psychology at Boston College and a senior research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, tested a group of 59 musicians and non-musicians ranging from eight to eleven years old. The tests showed that the children who had played piano and, or a string instrument for a mean of 4.63 years performed better on tasks that tested both skills that are both related and unrelated to playing a musical instrument, according to Schlaug, “The ones that...
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is not the sort of politician who likes to bite his tongue. But that's just what he found himself doing in the eight months following his surprising and colorful presidential campaign. (See pictures of Huckabee's campaign here...
...Garton scrambles and has an opening for eight yards before bringing dragged down by Eric Schultz...