The big thinkers at Aperture explore how the English language has evolved in surprising and humorous ways. The madness of George Will: Last lonely never-Trumper forges on Woman dubbed real life ...

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to get them back for decades. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam The ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

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Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining speakers, while others, such as Chinese, English, Spanish and Hindi, are ...

GOLF has released its latest ranking of the Top 100 Courses in the World, and nearly half of them are in the United States. (Great Britain and Ireland, with 29 courses, has the next-highest total.) ...

Playing the GOLF World Top 100 is often cast as the Mount Everest of golf travel. Augusta, for most, is as remote as the death zone. But the climb is not as forbidding as it sounds. Of the courses on ...

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...

There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention.

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