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The southern drawl gets deconstructed
BOSTON — Some aspects of speech are as Southern as pecan pie. Consider the vowel shift that makes the word…
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Imagine for a moment that you lived on another planet. Not Tatooine, Trantor or another fictional orb, but a real-deal…
Running is contagious among those with the competitive bug
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African farmers’ kids conquer the marshmallow test
Children of Nso farmers in Cameroon know how to master the marshmallow test, which has tempted away the self-control of…
Peru’s plenty brought ancient human migration to a crawl
Some of the earliest settlers of the Americas curtailed their coastal migration to hunker down in what’s now northwestern Peru,…