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Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy
The New Yorker: My sister has a rare talent for mishearing lyrics. When we were younger, song meanings would often morph into something quite different from their original intent. In one Wallflowers hit, for instance
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She Takes After You!
Slate: I vaguely remember my son’s first crawl, his first steps, and the first time he said “mama.” But I really remember the first time he swore. It was shortly after he had turned 3.
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The Unfulfilled Potential of Diapers
The Huffington Post: The baby diaper market — led by Proctor & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark — is projected to reach USD 52.2 billion by 2017. As the market grows, so does the investment in technology.
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Troubled #hearts — in 140 Characters
The Huffington Post: I joined Twitter in 2008, and I’ve always been impressed by the diversity of this floating conversation. People will just as soon tweet about dinner as the sorry state of American politics
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Memrise Prize Aimed at Spurring Innovations in Language Learning
David Shanks and Rosalind Potts, scientists in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London, United Kingdom, have teamed up with the online learning community Memrise to tackle an age-old problem: how
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Quality of Words, Not Quantity, Is Crucial to Language Skills, Study Finds
The New York Times: It has been nearly 20 years since a landmark education study found that by age 3, children from low-income families have heard 30 million fewer words than more affluent children, putting
