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Abby Agodong

A 'Mansplaining' Hotline? Yes, Actually, Sweden Has One - 1 views

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language mansplaining speech

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  • Abby Agodong on 16 Nov 16
     
    A Swedish union has set up a hotline for workers to report instances of "mansplaining" as part of a weeklong effort to raise awareness of a certain kind of condescending elocution that men use to explain to women things they already understand.
Lisa Stewart

Sign Language Researchers Broaden Science Lexicon - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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deafness sign_language science_language

shared by Lisa Stewart on 04 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Words like “organism” and “photosynthesis” — to say nothing of more obscure and harder-to-spell terms — have no single widely accepted equivalent in sign language. This means that deaf students and their teachers and interpreters must improvise, making it that much harder for the students to excel in science and pursue caree
  • rs in it.
  • This year, one of those resources, the Scottish Sensory Centre’s British Sign Language Glossary Project, added 116 new signs for physics and engineering terms, including signs for “light-year,”  (hold one hand up and spread the fingers downward for “light,” then bring both hands together in front of your chest and slowly move them apart for “year”), “mass” and “X-ray” (form an X with your index fingers, then, with the index finger on the right hand, point outward). 
Ryan Catalani

Babies Seem to Pick Up Language in Utero - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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babies

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  • Ryan Catalani on 08 Jan 13
     
    "'Even in late gestation, babies are doing what they'll be doing throughout infancy and childhood - learning about language,' said the lead author." This reminds me of the study that showed that babies' crying melodies reflect their native languages. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8346058.stm)
Leigh Yonemoto

Chinese Universities Drop English Requirement - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Leigh Yonemoto on 16 Apr 13
     
    Top universities in China are beginning to drop the English requirement test. This shows that English in losing its dominance internationally and Chinese may indeed be the language of the future.
Lisa Stewart

Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart? - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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anxiety genes stress

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  • Lisa Stewart on 11 Feb 13
     
    Not about linguistics, but of general interest to students. Talks about genetic basis for test anxiety--and under which conditions it is advantageous. This article is long but gets more interesting the further you read.
Ryan Catalani

What is a 'Hacktivist'? - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • Ryan Catalani on 14 Jan 13
     
    "'Lexical Warfare' is a phrase that I like to use for battles over how a term is to be understood. ... Over the past few years we've watched a lexical warfare battle slowly unfold in the treatment of the term 'hacktivism.' ... We are not passive observers in this dispute. The meaning of words is determined by those of us who use language, and it has consequences."
Lisa Stewart

At the National Conventions, the Words They Used - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...convention-word-counts.html

politics word_cloud liberal conservative

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  • A comparison of how often speakers at the two presidential nominating conventions used different words and phrases, based on an analysis of transcripts from the Federal News Service.
Alec LaClair

Tip Sheet: An Admissions Dean Offers Advice on Writing a College Essay - NYTimes.com - 30 views

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college_essay

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  • begin contemplating their college essays this summer
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      I think that beginning your essay early will help.
  • it is one of the few things you can still control.
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      This is nice to know, but also makes me a littler nervous too.
  • If you try to cover too many topics in your essay, you’ll end up with a resume of activities and attributes that doesn’t tell me as much about you as an in-depth look at one project or passion.
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      But how do we know which activity, attribute, or passion is the most important or meaningful for the college application essay?
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  • simple things in life that make the best essays.
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      I really like this. I think that when you turn something normal and simple into something unique and interesting, that shows a lot of creativity and is actually really exciting!
  • Tell me something I couldn’t know just from reading the other parts of your application.
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      When the application covers so much, how do we find something that we already haven't shared on the application? Oh! I know, your personality! :)
  • Show me why
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      Show, that's always my problem. How do we show what is inside of us?
  • Don’t rely on “how to” books
    • Alec LaClair
      Alec LaClair on 19 Sep 11
       
      i feel like too many people do this, people tend to rely on other people/things, but i believe that it should just come from the heart
  • Stephanie Wong on 14 Sep 11
     
    This advice is really, really helpful. I agree that it's important to focus on something specific that you're passionate about. At the same time, it's hard to expand on this and be detailed/focused throughout the entire essay. I like the advice of being humble and not showing off because the way you write and your topic can tell a lot about who you are as a person.
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  • Ian Sekiguchi on 14 Sep 11
     
    The two things that I liked the most about this article, was that it told the importance of showing a side of you and not telling it. I think that writing a compelling and vivid story is an extremely effective way to make your essay memorable. Second of all, I liked how the article said not to talk about the things already mentioned in the application. I think that its important to portray a side that the admissions officers would never be able to get out of simply reading statistics (scores, gpa, extracurriculars, etc...).
  • Alison Kamikawa on 14 Sep 11
     
    I think this was really helpful. It was really interesting when it said that this college essay is one of the only things you have control over and it made me change my view of this essay. At first, it just seemed like something that the college board reads to brighten up their own day, but now it made me think that this could actually be beneficial for me. I may not have control over what questions go on the SAT or if I can change my GPA, but I have total control over what I write. I also thought it was interesting to read that students shouldn't write to impress the college board. I would think that students would want to write about personal events that make them look good for the college.
  • anonymous on 14 Sep 11
     
    I think the best bit of information i took from this article, is showing how the struggle of overcoming some great difficulty. On a general sense, if I were to do an essay on some type of failure, I think the best way to continue the essay would be to show how I was able to push past this downfall, and learn from it. It's important to let the reader understand the hardship you went through and show them how you made the best of a seemingly terrible event.
  • Justin Lee on 14 Sep 11
     
    I think this tip sheet really summed up most of the other articles into a concise, helpful article. Overall, I learned that, in terms of the essay, colleges don't really care about any particular achievements. Instead, the colleges are looking at your voice to see what type of person you are. You should stray from writing about others and focus more about your own feelings and thoughts. Finally, college essay readers have seen all of the generic essays before, so there are more pros than cons in taking a risk by saying something controversial.
mmaretzki

The Flight From Conversation - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...-flight-from-conversation.html

Technology

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  • Lara Cowell on 26 Apr 12
     
    I'm reminded of my favorite line from Jonathan Franzen's _The Corrections_: "the schizophrenic eyes of the cellularly-occupied".
Ryan Catalani

Arguing About Language - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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change tradition revision traditionalist revisionist usage

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  • Ryan Catalani on 18 Apr 12
     
    "The pure traditionalist and pure revisionist positions are both oblivious to what is at stake in arguments over language. The traditionalists claim they are just asking us to play by the rules of the game; revisionists say they are just asking us to accept the fact that language is always changing. But both sides ignore the profound consequences of how we speak."
mmaretzki

The Neuroscience of Your Brain On Fiction - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html

brain neuroscience fiction

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  • Lara Cowell on 25 Mar 12
     
    Interesting follow-up to the handout on reading creating simulations in the brain. The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated. Reading provides a strong simulation of reality.
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