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Righting the mother tongue : from Olde English to email, the tangled story of English spelling
A narrative that spells out the history of the English language and the people who have tried to make spelling make sense.
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A tale of two halves
David Roberts, head of neurosurgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, sees an important lesson in split-brain research. \"In medical school, and science in general, there is so much emphasis on large numbers, labs, diagnostics and statistical significance,\" Roberts says - all crucial when, say, evaluating a new drug. Imaging tools can confirm, for example, that the left hemisphere is more active than the right when processing language.\\n But in the past few years, imaging studies have shown that the right hemisphere is heavily involved in the processing of others' emotions, intentions and beliefs - what many scientists have come to understand as the 'theory of mind'6.
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Aloha rodeo : three Hawaiian cowboys, the world's greatest rodeo, and a hidden history of the American West
Traces the role of three Hawaiian cowboys who became champions at the 1908 Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo, detailing how their careers influenced post-annexation Hawaiian identity, island ranching, and the rodeo culture of Cheyenne.
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The split brain: A tale of two halves
Since the 1960s, researchers have been scrutinizing a handful of patients who underwent a radical kind of brain surgery. The cohort has been a boon to neuroscience — but soon it will be gone.
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In Search or Solace, But Never Seen Again
When Abigail Danian walked into her kitchen and saw the empty packaging of a burner cellphone on the counter, she knew Isaac had gone. It was Sept. 7, 2020, and she had been out of town for Labor Day. All weekend, her 20-year-old son, Isaac, had been...
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