Language diversity isn’t always celebrated on campus, a linguist writes in a new article, callomg dialect the ‘last acceptable personal trait to make fun of.’
In addition to restricting when and where tobacco is used at work, research shows that employers can do something else to reduce smoking: raise wages.
Lyme disease is becoming increasingly common in Canada, and Canadians with Lyme disease symptoms may seek diagnoses from laboratories in the United States, although many of the results will be false-positives, according to a new commentary article.
A higher resting heart rate and lower heart rate variability in older adults at high risk of heart disease are associated with poorer ability to function in daily life as well as future decline, according to a new research.
Women who are deficient in vitamin D and have a specific high-risk genotype are 6.7 times more likely to develop AMD than women with sufficient vitamin D status and no high risk genotype, scientists report.
At 12 months old, your infant’s ability to group objects according to the names associated with them – as opposed to their appearance alone – offers a glimpse into how his or her vocabulary will develop by the time they are 18 months, researchers found. The study examined whether individual differences in the precision of 12-month-olds’ ability to link language and object categories was related to both their present and future vocabulary growth.
The human eye includes an unavoidable blind spot. That’s because the optic nerve that sends visual signals to the brain must pass through the retina, which creates a hole in that light-sensitive layer of tissue. When images project to that precise location, we miss them. As reported in a new article, this blind spot can be effectively ‘shrunk’ with training, despite the fact that the hole in our visual field cannot be.
