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The big deal in a new paper "Motivating voter turnout by invoking the self" (see also the official PNAS site, or e.g. this Discover magazine article "The power of nouns….") is that people can be...
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Keith Ellis got into an argument with a friend about the meaning of the number one, and asked us for help: In a discussion I had today with someone about the probability puzzle of "one of my two...
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In our recent discussions of anti-Americanisms-ism in Britain, commenters have occasionally brought up the question of whether or not Americans ever show similar linguistic xenophobia. The fact that...
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Baidu ("the Chinese Google") is a popular search engine in China. The web services company (registered in the Cayman Islands) and its name are discussed in "Soon to be lost in translation," which I...
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