Why parrots can talk like humans. A Vox video by Kimberly Mas.
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So, is it condescending or just annoying?
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“So, What’s The Big Deal With Starting A Sentence With ‘So’?” Geoff Nunberg, Fresh Air
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To general amazement, President Donald J. Trump addressed a joint session of Congress in a normal tone of voice last night. To no one’s surprise, however, he continued to base his dubious policies on alternative facts.
More:
“Fact-checking President Trump’s address to Congress,” Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post
“When you fact-check Donald Trump’s latest speech, you find that even the technically true parts aren’t really true,” Holly Baxter, The Independent
“Fact Check: Trump’s First Address to Congress,” New York Times
“Fact-checking Donald Trump’s first presidential address to Congress,” Alan Yuhas, The Guardian
“Fact-checkers had a field day with President Trump’s address to Congress,” Peter Weber, The Week
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Melania Trump (Laura Benanti) takes Stephen Colbert’s Late Show podium to explain that she did not plagiarize Michelle Obama’s speech.
Senator Bernie Sanders represents Vermont. So what’s with that accent? Joss Fong explains it all to you.
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Clint Eastward opens for Mitt Romney at the Republican National Convention. More Gran Torino than Dirty Harry. More rambling Grandpa at Thanksgiving dinner than either.
Awkward.
Psychologist and writer Steven Pinker recently spoke to the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) about language and cognition. The video of his complete lecture is here, but the animated excerpt above may be easier to follow, and more fun.
Video by Cognitive Media for RSA Animate.
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Mrs. Sarah Palin, former Temp-Governor of Alaska, gave a stirring speech to 400 disgruntled citizens in Nashville the other day. Her words were so profound that we reproduce them in full, from Mrs. Palin’s personal text:
Newt Gingrich disingenuously says a thousand-page congressional bill on health care reform is too long, as if other major congressional bills are any shorter.
5326 words. That’s the length of President Obama’s address to Congress Tuesday night. Is that too long for citizens to read? If so, try these six sentences:
America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. Walter Cronkite
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. Millions do not have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. The time has arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and that protection. President Harry S. Truman
Comprehensive health insurance is an idea whose time has come in America. President Richard M. Nixon
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