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Regional accents in the U.S. are getting stronger

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Regional accents are the hallmark of who you are and are a tie to communities.

The United States is an international melting pot and the average American makes a dozen moves in a lifetime.  And regional accents are alive and well in America. ,William Labov, a professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, says, in fact, regional accents are becoming stronger and more different from each other although it’s not entirely clear why.

 

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Analysis, Education, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Will “going to college” become obsolete?

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What should children in K-12 be learning today?

Anna Padte: I am giving a talk next week on Education in the 21st Century. When parents think about their child’s education, K-12, it is often focused on the goal of getting to a good if not excellent college. In updating my research for this talk, I dug deep into the future of American higher education and came upon some gait-stopping ideas.

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Analysis, Education, Entertainment, Historical Perspectives, New Discoveries

Lifespan of links on the Web

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How long is too long?

How long do links on the Web live? URL shortening service Bit.ly charted the average lifespan of 1,000 popular links on its website and found that most links shared online don’t live very long. Indeed, people stop clicking them after about 3 hours (if a news-related link, then after just 5 minutes)…

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Analysis, Culture, Education, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior

Real-Life Crime Victims are also more likely to be victims of Online Crime

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Do you fit the profile?

Norton put out a study on cybercrime, deducing that people who fall victim to acts of real-worl crime, such as burglary or robbery, are also more likely to have their identity stolen or fall victim to a phishing scheme…

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Analysis, Globalism, government, Historical Perspectives, Internet, Science & Technology News

The Great Information Wall of China

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Futurist Thomas Frey:  Over the past couple years, internet-fueled uprisings in Egypt, Lybia, Syria, and other parts of the world have made Chinese officials very nervous. They have exerted a firm hand in controlling any communications deemed detrimental to the ruling party and have now gone so far as to block any Google searches of the English words “democracy” and “freedom.”

 

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Analysis, Economy

Top 5 worst places in the U.S. to retire

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Lake Las Vegas, Nevada

Lists of the best place to retire in the United States are easy to find.  AARP has one; so do Forbes, U.S. News and a host of retiree-oriented websites. The same cities and states tend to appear on each list — Tucson, Ariz.! Austin, Texas! — in part because the things that matter most as people pick a place to retire — proximity to good medical care, tax advantages for seniors, nice climate and safe streets — never really go out of style.

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Analysis, Science & Technology News

Top 10 worst home energy hogs

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Set top boxes uses an average of 28.286 watts while off.

Electricity prices have been relentlessly rising over the past decade.  That has made many consumers more conscientious about how they use electric power. Many of those conscientious people may find it frustrating — to put it mildly — that their daily or even hourly efforts to turn off devices they’re not using hasn’t delivered the results they’d expected.

 

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Great New Product, Great Videos, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

The revolutionary “Disappearing Car Door”

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The disappearing car door is labelled a “revolutionary concept in car technology” by its creators Jatech. The disappearing car door is a spin on the convention car door employed in nearly all automobiles today. Instead of the outward swinging hinged doors we are all familiar with, they have developed a door that retracts down into the body of the vehicle. To see exactly what I’m talking about, check it out on their website. Jatech have fitted the disappearing doors to Lincoln sedans, but can do custom fittings to customer’s vehicles of choice.

 

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Analysis, Brain, Breakthrough Thinking, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior, New Discoveries

Babies distinguish pain from touch at 35-37 weeks, research finds

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Discovering a babies pain threshold.

Babies can distinguish painful stimuli as different from general touch from around 35-37 weeks gestation — just before an infant would normally be born — according to new research…

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