This article is also linked to a video in which Bill Nye the science guy explains dreams to kids using emoji. This article and video demonstrates that children are beginning to use and understand emoji at a younger and younger age.

There are pros and cons to electronic readers and hard copies. E-readers have several pros, such as the ability to get almost any book the reader may want, it saves trees and it is also easy to carry around. However, more and more people are rejecting e-readers and returning to hear copies. The two leading arguments for hard-copy would be that they prevent you from getting distracted. It has also been shown that readers retain information better through hard-copy books.

Social Media can be beneficial and also detrimental when it comes to books. Social media allows for readers to connect with authors to ask questions and to connect with other readers to discuss books. It can also be detrimental in that it removes the realm of "fiction" from many books. Since everything is so widely discussed, it prevents readers from coming up with their own ideas to fill the holes in books.

Listening to music while studying can be helpful for many different reasons. Since music can affect your mood, if you listen to relaxing music it can prevent you from becoming stressed while studying. Music can also help to block out other distractions while studying, especially in busy or loud environments.

In this TED Talk, Patricia Kuhl discusses how babies learn language. Using lab experiments and brain scans, such as PET scans, her team of researches were able to determine that babies "take statistics." This means they use a process of reasoning to determine what sounds they need to learn to say.

Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia. This means that all of these aspects are woven together in his perception of the world. Through this talks he discusses what it is like to have synesthesia and how it affects his use of language in his everyday life.

This is a TED Talk of Jamila Lyiscott's "3 Ways to Speak English." She discusses the three different types of English she uses -- one with her parents, one in the classroom, and one with her friends. She then expands upon the evolution of each of these languages and what it means to be articulate.

Throughout the world, languages are going extinct at a rapid rate. Many people have been investigating to see if the internet is to blame for language extinction, or if it is simply a reflection of what is happening in real-world. Some linguists even believe that small languages are given an advantage on the internet because it is a place for languages to be expressed.

A Bill has just recently been passed in U.S. Senate Committee that will allot money to revive languages on the verge of extinction. This was passed with the help of Brian Schatz, a Hawai'i senator. There are about 148 Native languages in our nation that are at risk of going extinct, and this bill will provide funding and awareness to support these languages through immersion schools, language classes and tribes.