What do we mean by meaning? Science can help with that
Most of us want our lives to have meaning. But what do we mean by meaning? What is meaning?
Mar 15, 2019
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Most of us want our lives to have meaning. But what do we mean by meaning? What is meaning?
Mar 15, 2019
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Some conversations are forgotten as soon as they are over, while other exchanges may leave lasting imprints. University of Texas at Austin researchers Sandie Keerstock and Rajka Smiljanic want to understand why and how listeners ...
Nov 6, 2018
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Just last week, the Victorian Court of Appeal significantly reduced the sentence given to Akon Guode, a mother who killed three of her children after driving her car into a lake in Melbourne. The main reason for the 8½ year ...
Aug 22, 2018
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University studied the neural response of Japanese junior high school students learning English as a second language while listening to English sentences. More proficient boys showed more ...
Mar 23, 2018
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Despite great advances in medicine, cancer remains a death sentence for many. "Patients are still dying from breast cancer relapse," says Jian Yuan Goh, of A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore. The researcher and his colleagues, ...
Mar 16, 2018
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Researchers have developed a test for more accurate diagnosis of patients who cannot actively participate in a speech understanding test. Such patients include very young children or people in comas. In the longer term, the ...
Mar 8, 2018
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Whether you're speaking in your native tongue, or in another language, being understood and believed is fundamental to good communication. After all, a fact is a fact in any language, and a statement that is objectively true ...
Jan 10, 2018
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If you're sitting around the holiday table and one of your curmudgeonly uncles says something unintentionally bigoted, your inclination may be to ask for more mashed potatoes and get on with the feast. But Rutgers University-New ...
Nov 30, 2017
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The nation's 31 million children growing up in homes with low socioeconomic status have, on average, significantly smaller vocabularies compared with their peers.
Nov 30, 2017
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Taboo words provoke certain responses in readers' heart rates and brains, diminishing their attention and memory, research has shown.
Aug 10, 2017
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