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- How computers entered the classroom, 1960–2000 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110780147/html 28 comments
- Biofluorescence in the Platypus https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/mamm/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0027/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0027.xml 6 comments
- Study n=3,380 on "why cartoons make us smile" found that men rate visual jokes more highly than women do, whereas women prefer jokes that involve political commentary or the dynamics of close relationships. But both genders share a liking for cartoons that explore the complexities of romance https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/humor-2023-0111/html 8 comments science
- Perception of illusory clusters: the role of native timing https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/phon-2023-2005/html 6 comments linguistics
- For many years Jewish life in Europe has been viewed with skepticism and concern. How certain is the Jewish future in Europe? This is a question that is asked more often than almost any other. A new open access publication about contemporary European Jewry in an interdisciplinary perspective. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110783216/html#overview 4 comments europe
- On the etymological attribution of certain non-Tibetan lexical elements in medieval Tibetan texts (Kogan 2022) https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jlr-2023-203-405/pdf 4 comments linguistics
- The Language of the Caucasian Albanians https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110794687-004/html 8 comments linguistics
- Methods Used in Economic Research: An Empirical Study of Trends and Levels https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/econ-2021-0003/html 2 comments economics
- The Decipherment of Linear Elamite Writing https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/za-2022-0003/html 12 comments linguistics
- Low HDL-C is a non-fasting marker of insulin resistance in children https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jpem-2021-0751/html 5 comments science
- Words referring to (staple) food tend to begin with /pa-/, /ma-/, /fa-/, /wa-/, etc., similar to the mouth-opening gesture https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2021-0127/html 30 comments linguistics
- If anyone here somehow had some doubts about how idiotic and clueless some people in “academia” are these days, let me lay it to rest right now. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839449806-012/html 33 comments goldandblack
- [deleted by user] https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/humor-2021-0054/html 4 comments science
- Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7312/fran13422/html 4 comments philosophy
- Studies (n=172 and 260) find that paying for the services of a sex robot is condemned less harshly than paying for the services of a human sex worker, especially if the payer is married. https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/pjbr/11/1/article-p233.xml?tab_body=abstract 17 comments science
- The record for the longest recorded migration by a bat has been broken by a small, brown, fuzzy creature that flew at least 2,224 kilometres from Latvia to Spain. https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/mamm/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0069/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0069.xml 7 comments science
- Scientists have discovered that the platypus is biofluorescent. The three specimens in the study appeared brown under visible light and green or cyan under UV light, due to fluoresced wavelengths that peaked around 500 nm. This is the first report of biofluorescence in a monotreme mammal. https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/mamm/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0027/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0027.xml 441 comments science
- Scientists have just discovered that platypuses glow green under ultraviolet light, making the animal one of only three known biofluorescent mammals https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/mamm/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0027/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0027.xml 26 comments science
- Platypuses glow in the dark. It’s not enough to be a mammal that lays eggs, sports a duck-like bill and webbed feet, hunts using electroreception, and wields venomous spurs: it turns out they also glow green under ultraviolet light. https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/mamm/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0027/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0027.xml 8 comments science
- Words for something round tend to have [+round] sounds https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/lity/24/2/article-p253.xml 3 comments linguistics
- A fabulous overview of evidence and examples of a dynamic, learning-based, computationally and cognitively informed treatment of the mental lexicon (with no morphemes!) https://www.degruyter.com/view/book/9783110440577/10.1515/9783110440577-002.xml 4 comments linguistics
- Depressed individuals were found to use self-defeating humor more and self-enhancing humor less than non-depressed adults. A positive correlation was found between depressed affect and both aggressive and self-defeating humor. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/humr.2019.32.issue-3/humor-2017-0098/humor-2017-0098.xml 21 comments science
- “o” sounds round and “ch” sounds small - a study based on 66 languages https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lity.ahead-of-print/lingty-2019-0030/lingty-2019-0030.xml 3 comments science
- Phonosemantic biases found in Leipzig-Jakarta lists of 66 languages https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lity.ahead-of-print/lingty-2019-0030/lingty-2019-0030.xml 8 comments linguistics
- Soil on Moon and Mars likely to support crops - Researchers have produced crops in Mars and Moon soil simulant developed by NASA. The research supports the idea that it would not only be possible to grow food on Mars and the Moon, but also to obtain viable seed from crops grown there https://www.degruyter.com/dg/newsitem/352/soil-on-moon-and-mars-likely-to-support-crops 10 comments science
- Researchers produced crops in Mars and Moon soil simulant developed by NASA. The research supports the idea that it would not only be possible to grow food on Mars and the Moon to feed future settlers, but also to obtain viable seed from crops grown there. https://www.degruyter.com/dg/newsitem/352/soil-on-moon-and-mars-likely-to-support-crops 20 comments space
- Researchers have produced crops in Mars and moon soil simulant developed by NASA. The research supports the idea that it would not only be possible to grow food on Mars and the moon to feed future settlers, but also to obtain viable seed from crops grown there. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opag.2019.4.issue-1/opag-2019-0051/opag-2019-0051.xml 3 comments science
- Researchers grow 9 crops in Mars and Moon simulated soil. These crops produced edible components with 3 of them producing viable seeds. Biomass from the Mars simulated soil was comparable to that of Earth soil. https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/opag.2019.4.issue-1/opag-2019-0051/opag-2019-0051.pdf 9 comments science
- “That spelling tho”: A sociolinguistic study of the nonstandard form of though in a corpus of Reddit comments https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/eujal.2019.7.issue-2/eujal-2019-0007/eujal-2019-0007.xml?format=int#.xzurzn_wxcs.reddit 5 comments linguistics
- Scientists find a rare form of iron-carbide mineral never found in nature before: from a meteorite that fell on Earth in 1951 https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ammin.2019.104.issue-9/am-2019-7102/am-2019-7102.xml 4 comments science
- Scientist report the variable three-star system Algol which is identified as Horus in Egyptian scrolls shows evidence of Algol's variability observations 3000 years before modern astronomers https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/astro.2018.27.issue-1/astro-2018-0033/astro-2018-0033.xml 2 comments science
- THC is the most commonly detected intoxicant in US drivers, with around 13% of drivers testing positive for marijuana use, compared to 8% for alcohol. However, cannabis use remains detectable for much longer than alcohol, and also for long after the driver is no longer impaired. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jdpa.ahead-of-print/jdpa-2018-0004/jdpa-2018-0004.xml 3 comments science
- Is it time to rule out the "sign is arbitrary" principle from linguistics textbooks? https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/flin.2011.45.issue-1/flin.2011.007/flin.2011.007.xml 52 comments linguistics
- Stand-up comedians come down with infectious diseases more frequently https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/humr.ahead-of-print/humor-2017-0054/humor-2017-0054.xml?format=int 10 comments science
- The Mystery of Vlach Magic [open access; PDF] http://www.degruyter.com/dg/viewarticle.fullcontentlink:pdfeventlink/$002fj$002feec.2012.18.issue-1$002fv10130-012-0004-9$002fv10130-012-0004-9.pdf?t:ac=j$002feec.2012.18.issue-1$002fv10130-012-0004-9$002fv10130-012-0004-9.xml 19 comments europe
- Krifka (2011) "Varieties of Semantic Evidence" in *Semantics: An International Handbook* (Maienborn et al., eds.) [non-paywalled pre-publication PDF in comment] http://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110226614/9783110226614.242/9783110226614.242.xml 9 comments linguistics
- Population size and number of phonemes http://www.degruyter.com/dg/viewarticle/j$002flity.1998.2.issue-3$002flity.1998.2.3.263$002flity.1998.2.3.263.xml 6 comments linguistics
- When Do Politicians Lie? http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bejeap.2012.13.issue-3/1935-1682.3103/1935-1682.3103.xml 6 comments science
- Social Structure and Language Structure: the New Nomothetic Approach (Roberts & Winters, 2013) http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/plc.2012.16.issue-2/v10057-012-0008-6/v10057-012-0008-6.xml?format=int 4 comments linguistics
- I'm in that weird part on applied math journals again... http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ijfe.2005.1.3/ijfe.2005.1.3.1000/ijfe.2005.1.3.1000.xml 23 comments math