A Gesture Is Worth A Thousand Words?
What sets human communication apart from lower animals is its compositionality, which means that units of meaning can be combined and new meanings can be constructed. The words "blue" and "car" have…
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If You Love Science, Stop Doing Outreach To Create More Scientists
What is sure to happen, since 50% of science funding is politically controlled, is that a giant wave of new PhDs will get teary stories on the floor of Congress and outraged Senators declaring that X…
There's A Gender Pay Gap But It's Smaller In Occupations Dominated By Men
The wage gap between genders has always had some cultural traction but there were also always odd pockets where it was worse - including what you wouldn't have expected. Environmental groups had far…
Cannabinoid Chronic Neuropathic Pain Treatment Gets A Patent
A cannabinoid neuropathic treatment that provided pain relief in rats for a period of eleven days after the oral administration of a single dose has received a patent and signed an intellectual…