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- New Words, New World: What happens when a language is born [audio] http://www.radiolab.org/story/91730-new-words-new-world/ 7 comments
- A Milanese Friar wrote about North America (Markland) in c. 1340, giving evidence that word of the New World had circulated through Europe before Columbus https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2021.1943792 11 comments history
- New words show how our world is changing http://cup.linguistlist.org/journals/english-today/new-words-show-how-our-world-is-changing/ 8 comments linguistics
- Still Don't Believe In The New World Order? ~ In their own words... http://www.svpvril.com/nwo.html 14 comments politics
- Grim glossary of the narco-world -- Average words aren't sufficient for the over-the-top violence of Mexico's drug war, so new ones have been invented. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-narco-glossary28-2009oct28,0,1009690.story 9 comments worldnews
- Stephen Fry's new TV show 'Planet Word' delves into the world of language (Episodes available free on Youtube) http://www.youtube.com/user/nickfromfulham#p/c/f63dd640e7051aee/0/fngkvff2wbi 9 comments linguistics
- English adds a new word every 98 minutes. This means there are more than 900,000 English words in the world, and the one-millionth will appear sometime in April 2009. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/million-word-march.html?c=y&page=1 3 comments reddit.com
- NYC politicians’ one-word case for net neutrality: Skype "if more North Koreans were able to leave, set up in New York City, and Skype back, perhaps fewer of their people would believe that Korea DPR had reached the World Cup final." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/15/nyc-politicians-one-word-case-for-net-neutrality-skype/?tid=rssfeed 7 comments technology
- Why We Need New Words for Nature: The way we talk about the natural world can shape our relationship to it. In a time of environmental crisis, should we be paying more attention to the language we use? https://atmos.earth/why-we-need-new-words-to-describe-the-natural-world/ 14 comments climate
- [Dwyane Wade] I wanna thank my brother @jimmybutler for keeping his word and coming to my basketball camp in New Lenox. This camp had over 500 kids from all around the world attend and No rumor, no trade, no nothing can come between a bond. That's what we've built. https://www.instagram.com/p/bxepwqeae49/ 384 comments nba
- Stop bickering over climate and act: World Bank launching new report says lack of an international deal is a "lame excuse" to not tackling climate change, using strongest wording yet http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/stop-bickering-over-climate-and-act-world-bank-20130620-2ojwq.html 4 comments worldnews
- Conscious Reality Is Only a Memory of Unconscious Actions, Scientists Propose In Radical New Theory | “We perceive the world as a memory," the authors of a recent paper wrote. "In other words, technically, we are not consciously perceiving anything directly." https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axbkd/our-conscious-reality-is-a-memory-scientists-propose 61 comments futurology
- I'm writing a program in which i am to look generate a new version of a user-inputted word by changing only one letter in the world. i am supposed to keep on doing that until i reach the secon user-inputted word. Program compiles but crashes midway.. Can you please take a look at my code ? https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/ggsrmk/im_writing_a_program_in_which_i_am_to_look/ 9 comments learnprogramming
- Inrupt - Tim Berners-Lee radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web. "Decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it. In other words, it’s game on for Facebook, Google, Amazon. " https://www.inrupt.com/ 87 comments programming
- Using a new methodology that measures how closely words' meanings are related within and between languages, an international team of researchers has revealed that for many universal concepts, the world's languages feature a common structure of semantic relatedness http://phys.org/news/2016-02-semantically-languages.html 16 comments science
- Babies Learn to Recognize Words in the Womb -- As a fetus grows inside a mother's belly, it can hear sounds from the outside world—and can understand them well enough to retain memories of them after birth, according to new research http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2013/08/babies-learn-recognize-words-womb 10 comments science
- Our World by Intelligent Design | The word is out the Obama Administration will base policy decisions on science instead of religious or political dogma. This is a breath of fresh air, music to true patriots ears, earning our new leaders high praise for this welcome long awaited big change. http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=13561 9 comments politics
- The uncomfortable fact is that Russia is not a centre of innovation. There are no world class Russian manufacturing companies, no universities churning out new inventions. In other words, Mr Putin has virtually no control over Russia's economic destiny. The vagaries of the world energy market will decide how belligerent he can afford to be. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/23/wrussia223.xml 3 comments reddit.com