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POPSResearchers can predict which noun a person is visualizing. Models such as this one could also be useful in diagnosing disorders of language or helping students pick up a foreign language. In semantic dementia, for example, people lose the ability to remember the meanings of things - shown a picture of a chihuahua, they can only recall 'dog', for example - but little is known about what exactly goes wrong in the brain. “We could look at what the neural encoding is for this,” says Mitchell.
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POPSAttack of the killer ravens: Flocks are suddenly slaughtering lambs "Research published last year in the Scientific American also showed the raven to be one of the most intelligent species on the planet - up there with dolphins and apes and, unlike most other birds and animals, capable of learning from their own actions and from observing others' behaviour. They're thought to be one of the few birds that can count, and some have even learned to fashion leaves into special tools for extracting grubs from crevices in trees. In Japan, they were reportedly found dropping nuts onto a dual-carriageway, then darting down to eat them once the cars had cracked them open. Although older ravens (they live up to 25 years) mate for life and travel in pairs, young birds may form flocks of up to several hundred - collective nouns for ravens include an "unkindness", a "conspiracy", and a "murder" - which swoop on farm animals"
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POPSDon't Write Like An Idiot This is a reclip of an older clip that Invictus made. His original exceeded the current clip limit so I couldn't revive it. Refresher everyone.
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POPSThousands of hyphens bite the dust First kids didn't have to learn to tie knots, thanks to velcro, then they didn't have to learn to add because they have calculators, then they didn't have to make those long trips to the library to use the encyclopedias, and now this? No more struggling over whether or not to put in a hyphen? Talk about a good life! Seriously, didn't English teachers get way to bent over such trivial trash? I struggled over these odd little hyphen things and am grateful that they are willing to step up and modify the English language to reflect how the majority uses it.
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POPS-ous Now that I have been given a satisfactory understanding of grammar, I am being introduced to linguistics.
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POPSEnglish Lanugage quizzes in my experience, even some native speakers would do well to take some of these quizzes to raise their awareness for the English language! great collection - generally a useful site for English language teaching and learning. loads more at source.
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POPSResume Trends in the Internet Age In the Internet Age, key words and tagging are an integral part of brand marketing - and personal networking. As Trend Agitator tracks trends in ecommerce, this article serves notice to extend these valuable tools into the resume broadcast strategy.
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