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History / Archeology - Linguistics / Literature - 31.10.2024
From Yiddish to English: How the bagel came to America
Over time, the English language has acquired quite a few Yiddish words, such as bagel. Some are now no longer even recognizable as such.
Linguistics / Literature - 31.10.2024
From ’guising’ to ’actin’ the maggot’: Your voice needed as language survey expands to Ireland and Wales
Linguistics / Literature - Environment - 30.10.2024
How speech comes to children
Before going to school to learn how to read and write their language, children first manage to understand and then speak it.
Campus - Linguistics / Literature - 28.10.2024
Bloody Brilliant: Pre-College Students Learn with Carnegie Mellon Prop Department
Linguistics / Literature - 25.10.2024
How to have better conversations
Linguistics / Literature - 23.10.2024
Flock is a refreshing play about the complex reality of growing up in care
Linguistics / Literature - History / Archeology - 18.10.2024
Our very own Magic Pudding: Sydney Rare Book Week
Astronomy / Space - Linguistics / Literature - 16.10.2024
How to speak to extraterrestrials?
Interview with the linguist Frédéric Landragin, who recently published a short guide on interstellar communication.
Linguistics / Literature - 09.10.2024
SCS Researchers Design Models To Help Linguists Reconstruct Ancient Languages
Tracing languages back to their roots often presents challenges like missing words, scant evidence and countless questions. Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science hope to tackle some of these challenges using computer models that help reconstruct ancient languages. Even though they're no longer used, the protolanguages that spawned modern languages can provide a window into the cultural past.
Linguistics / Literature - Innovation - 09.10.2024
Theatre practice promotes development of more social robots
Linguistics / Literature - 01.10.2024
Big brother is (still) watching: why the lessons of 1984 are more important than ever
While our everyday interactions with surveillance are now well beyond the depictions in George's Orwell's dystopian classic 1984, the novel's approach to truth and language is more relevant than we could have imagined.
Linguistics / Literature - 30.09.2024
Writing Science Clearly
Linguistics / Literature - Social Sciences - 26.09.2024
European Day of Languages: Will lesser spoken languages soon only be kept alive by AI technology?
Linguistics / Literature - Life Sciences - 24.09.2024
Drama Without Limits: BXA Reflects on Theater’s Value in Interdisciplinary Studies
Innovation - Linguistics / Literature - 20.09.2024
Coming to a library near you: chatbots!
In a new article, two UdeM librarians consider the possibilities and potential benefits of using ChatGPT and similar chatbots in campus libraries.
Health - Linguistics / Literature - 18.09.2024
Manchester Professor honours his father in new book on World Alzheimer’s Day
Linguistics / Literature - 13.09.2024
Book reveals secrets of ’fascinating’ termites
Environment - Linguistics / Literature - 03.09.2024
In the company of birds
Linguistics / Literature - Health - 02.09.2024
Official Swiss Italian: a minority language with major recognition
Linguistics / Literature - 29.08.2024
Students learn theater design through the power of play
MIT Theater faculty invite students to draw upon their personal experiences to create evocative set, sound, and lighting designs, As a mechanical engineering and theater double major, senior Alayo Ol
Linguistics / Literature - Health - 28.08.2024
Fiona Wright named Charles Perkins Centre 2024 Writer-in-Residence
Linguistics / Literature - Innovation - 27.08.2024
Shaping AI: Why the humanities matter in tech innovation
Linguistics / Literature - History / Archeology - 13.08.2024
Cynthia Griffin Wolff, acclaimed biographer and longtime MIT professor, dies at 87
Linguistics / Literature - 09.08.2024
The Years - an audacious adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s masterpiece of memoir and sociology
Social Sciences - Linguistics / Literature - 08.08.2024
Securing voices of Country
Linguistics / Literature - Campus - 01.08.2024
The study and practice of being human
Linguistics / Literature - 29.07.2024
Just a Minute: Avoiding ’brain fry’ key to success on popular Radio 4 gameshow
Comedian Paul Merton and a Cardiff University academic have investigated why Radio 4 programme Just a Minute is so challenging for players.
Linguistics / Literature - History / Archeology - 12.07.2024
Opinion: Five of this summer’s best fiction reads
Linguistics / Literature - Campus - 03.07.2024
US abortion rulings: Legal-linguistic analysis of amicus briefs shows loss of agency for women on both sides of the debate
Amicus briefs written in favour of abortion access were too weak in their language to be able to counter those written against, research concludes.
Linguistics / Literature - 26.06.2024
Sàr-obair Bàrdachd a’ Trasnadh Chrìochan Cànanach
Linguistics / Literature - 21.06.2024
’Our main work is about dialogue, which is not always comfortable’
Art and Design - Linguistics / Literature - 12.06.2024
Review: Rachel Cusk’s Parade: a daring work of experimentation that strikes out against conformity
Campus - Linguistics / Literature - 12.06.2024
Chris Childers’ epic accomplishment
Ten years in the making, poet and Writing Seminars alum Chris Childers' 956-page translation of Greek and Latin lyric verse is a 'personal odyssey' gathering over 80 poets from across eight centuries
Linguistics / Literature - 23.05.2024
Libraries across Wales and England to house academic’s research on dementia communication
Politics - Linguistics / Literature - 21.05.2024
Academics share their research at Hay Festival
Linguistics / Literature - 17.05.2024
Celebrating the wonderful talent of Alice Munro, 1931-2024
Linguistics / Literature - 13.05.2024
Désanne van Brederode new Writer in Residence at VU Amsterdam
Linguistics / Literature - 07.05.2024
Film commissioned by UCLA professor earns spot at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes
Linguistics / Literature - 01.05.2024
Grey’s Anatomy or Me Before You helps in coping with death
People actively engaging with death, for instance by reading about it, and then watching a film where that subject is central, learn to deal with death better.
Computer Science - Linguistics / Literature - 01.05.2024
Natural language boosts LLM performance in coding, planning, and robotics
Three neurosymbolic methods help language models find better abstractions within natural language, then use those representations to execute complex tasks. Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly useful for programming and robotics tasks, but for more complicated reasoning problems, the gap between these systems and humans looms large.
Politics - Linguistics / Literature - 30.04.2024
U.S. aid and the war in Ukraine
Will U.S. aid change the trajectory of the war in Ukraine? Congress has officially approved $61 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine.
Linguistics / Literature - Music - 23.04.2024
From Playground to Broadway
The circus has come to Broadway and the musical team behind it has been clowning around together since their freshman year at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama.
Linguistics / Literature - Campus - 22.04.2024
New Chung | Lind Gallery brings B.C. histories together at UBC Library
Linguistics / Literature - 16.04.2024
Exploring the world of picture books
Dr. Jennifer Harris is no stranger to the publishing industry as an agented author with three published picture books and a fourth on the way.
Linguistics / Literature - 11.04.2024
’Just because something is complex doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to explain it’
Linguistics / Literature - 04.04.2024
The great bookish bake-off
Music - Linguistics / Literature - 04.04.2024
Drinking from a firehose - on stage
Linguistics / Literature - History / Archeology - 02.04.2024
John Barth, prolific author and revered mentor, dies at 93
Linguistics / Literature - Life Sciences - 28.03.2024
How can a baby learn two languages at the same time?
Article dated March 19, 2024, published in The Conversation online media, as part of the partnership with ENS de Lyon.
Linguistics / Literature - 21.03.2024
UCL partners with European Writers’ Festival as new Writer in Residence announced
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Vet Med postdoc studies impact of deforestation on wildlife viruses and human health in Cambodia
Vet Med postdoc studies impact of deforestation on wildlife viruses and human health in Cambodia
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Health - Nov 2
UK Government austerity policies associated with increased rates of adverse birth outcomes
UK Government austerity policies associated with increased rates of adverse birth outcomes
Career - Nov 1
Labour must address levelling-up failures by promoting a strong skills base in weaker economies
Labour must address levelling-up failures by promoting a strong skills base in weaker economies
Social Sciences - Nov 1
Researchers locate intervention points to prevent male perpetration of domestic violence
Researchers locate intervention points to prevent male perpetration of domestic violence
Environment - Nov 1
Buzz off! Challenge of keeping pest flies off cattle moo-tivates Vet Med researcher
Buzz off! Challenge of keeping pest flies off cattle moo-tivates Vet Med researcher
Astronomy - Nov 1
Communications user terminal developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory prepares for historic moon flyby
Communications user terminal developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory prepares for historic moon flyby
Chemistry - Oct 31
Bachelor students develop model to better understand the chemical process of renewable fuels
Bachelor students develop model to better understand the chemical process of renewable fuels