How the 18th-century ‘probability revolution’ fueled the casino gambling craze
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DNA from stone age chewing gum sheds light on diet and disease in Scandinavia's ancient hunter-gatherers
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Queen Margrethe II is the first Danish monarch to abdicate in 900 years – but it is just a sign of the times
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How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control, fifty years on from Chile’s US-backed coup
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Should AI be permitted in college classrooms? Four scholars weigh in.
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Historian finds evidence for use of y'all in London from 1600s
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Strongly influenced by Quakers 175 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA
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The history behind Orkney's vote to ‘join Norway’
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Globetrotting Black nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
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Reading to improve language skills? Focus on fiction rather than non-fiction
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I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner
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The long history of warrior turtles, from ancient myth to warships to teenage mutants
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Environmental change may have played a role at the dawn of Egyptian history
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Is political violence ever justifiable?
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Iran’s secular shift: New survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs
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Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: The race riot of one night in June 1943
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The invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was initially met with skepticism
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Explorer, navigator, coloniser: Revisit Captain Cook’s legacy with the click of a mouse
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Funerals of the future? – Sweden sees sharp rise in burials without ceremony
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‘Like’ isn’t a lazy linguistic filler – the English language snobs need to, like, pipe down
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How Cape Town’s “Gayle” has endured – and been adopted by straight people
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Evolution: How the theory is inspiring a new way of understanding language
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How British Sign Language developed its own dialects
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Oi! We’re not lazy yarners, so let’s kill the cringe and love our Aussie accent(s).
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Big gods came after the rise of civilisations, not before, finds study using huge historical database
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Hearing hate speech primes your brain for hateful actions
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Language and identity: Lessons from a unique Afrikaans community in Patagonia
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Explainer: the largest language spoken exclusively in Australia – Kriol
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North Sentinel Island: Uncontacted tribes’ ‘right to be left alone’ doesn’t gel with broader human rights
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What these two French words can teach us about social change
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Found: The earliest European image of Aboriginal Australians
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Why atheists are not as rational as some like to think
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The end of scientific, rational thinking: Donald Trump, Doug Ford and Jordan Peterson
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‘Cwtch’: What the most famous Welsh-English word reveals about global dialects
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Red, yellow, pink and green: How the world’s languages name the rainbow
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Who are the Sikhs and what are their beliefs?
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‘You don’t belong to my country either.’ How two Noongar boys spoke up, a world away from home.
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Barracking, sheilas and shouts: How the Irish influenced Australian English
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The origins of Pama-Nyungan, Australia’s largest family of Aboriginal languages
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Little upside for Malcolm Turnbull in debate over religious freedom
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