January 2011
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How words get the message across →
infoneer-pulse: Longer words tend to carry more information, according to research by a team of cognitive scientists. It’s a suggestion that might sound intuitively obvious, until you start to think about it. Why, then, the difference in length between ‘now’ and ‘immediately’? For many years, linguists have tended to believe that the length of a word was associated with how often it was used,...
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50. praying
i’m scared.
Jan 18th
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i have already made some very interesting decisions this year — some of which i never thought i would make. i hope the results will be okay.
Jan 18th
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iamlittlei: My mentor is teaching genetics and is conflating sex and gender (or, rather, equating them). Oh, dear. You’ll have a lot of unteaching to do this term!
Jan 4th
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Jan 3rd