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Studies and learning about people and how they function in a social environment.

What about just sitting on the beach?

Mark Roberts describes a conundrum some face when laid off work or retiring in Creation, Contentment, and Work. Human beings are not simply to sit on a beach and enjoy the beauty of creation. Nor are they simply to sit in a cathedral and enjoy the beauty of God. Rather, they are to be actively [...]

2012 02 07 bryan Religion
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Words mean things?

Cognitive scientists develop new take on old problem: why human language has so many words with multiple meanings at PhysOrg has some interesting implications for legal and technical prose as well as for the nature of some arguments in the online forums and discussions. To understand why ambiguity makes a language more efficient rather than [...]

2012 01 19 bryan factoids Comments (0)