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Scientists Just Made A 3,000-Year-Old Mummy ‘Speak’
Have you ever wondered what an ancient Egyptian mummy would sound like if it could talk? A wild new scientific experiment has finally answered this burning question, but the result is perhaps less impressive (and certainly less ominous) than you might think.
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President Trump Promises To Cure Cancer If Re-Elected During Neo-Fascist Rally
US President Donald Trump has made a lot of broken promises during his time in office. He promised to lower prescription drug prices, get Mexico to pay for a border wall, and he even said a 10 per cent tax cut for the middle class was on the way before the 2018 midterms. That tax…
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Language Is Illogical And Resistance Is Futile
Photo: Alan Wiig via VisualHunt.com Grammar prescriptivists — who believe rules should be followed; “descriptivists” believe correct grammar is whatever works — love to appeal to logic. If “he could care less,” then he could care less — you have to say “he couldn’t”! It’s the rock we cling to against the rising tide of literally-means-figuratively-now.…
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New Speech-Enhancing Software Ensures Loudspeaker Announcements Are Always Understandable
When train stations and airports get crammed full of people, it’s impossible to hear loudspeaker announcements over all the noise. So researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute developed a new system that listens for when a venue gets loud, and automatically adjusts announcements so they’re always audible.