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Around half of toddlers who aren’t chattering by age two will catch up later, but we can’t predict which ones.
Succession: no one does much without a phone in their hot little scheming hands.
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How technology is central to the show’s most dramatic and pivotal moments – and how it might define its legacy.
Defensive, uncertain, confident, confrontational: can your body language reveal what you’re thinking?
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Why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover: the limitations of reading body language.
Before the boxes are packed, you should square your expectations.
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Discussing some key topics before – or even after – they move in together can help couples successfully navigate this step.
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Leaks of thousands of messages show government officials making light of lockdowns and joking about frightening the public.
Dancers Elizabeth Riley and Jamie Constance wearing the sensor suits.
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The language of dance is often lost on a general audience. Now new research has used sensor suits to discover patterns of movement-based communication in ballet performance.
Ants from different colonies will fight based on smell alone.
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Researchers explore what happens when ants can’t properly use smell to detect friend from foe.
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The waggle dance is performed by forager bees to convey important information about food sources.
A honeybee is performing the waggle dance in the center of this photo to communicate the location of a rich nectar source to its nestmates.
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Honeybees possess one of the most complex examples of nonhuman communication. New research suggests that it is learned and culturally passed down from older to younger bees.
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Doctors don’t always tell you they’re unsure what’s behind common symptoms, such as a stomach ache. And that can have serious effects.
Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner in Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons.
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In a story where you have to choose your words carefully, it’s important to convey meaning to audiences in other ways.
Compassionate listening is the practice of shifting our focus from talking to listening. In so doing, we overcome egocentricity.
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Compassionate listening is an overlooked practice, but urgently needed in both interpersonal and political communications.
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Looking for sparks between the sheets this Valentine’s Day?
People don’t necessarily tell the same stories over and over again because they’re losing cognitive function, but because the stories are important, and they feel we need to know them.
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Repeated storytelling from elderly relatives doesn’t necessarily always signal age or cognitive decline. It’s about conveying memories and values to a new generation.
Mansplaining isn’t just a social media phenomenon — it permeates beyond the virtual realm to affect people in their working lives.
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People who experience mansplaining suffer lower organizational commitment and job satisfaction, and higher turnover intention, emotional exhaustion and psychological distress.
Bottlenose dolphins are extremely social animals that communicate constantly.
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Using urine and signature whistles from other dolphins, a team of scientists has shown that dolphins use signature whistles like names and hold mental representations of other dolphins in their minds.
Kenya’s journalists have had a tumultuous relationship with Uhuru Kenyatta’s government.
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The relationship between the state and media soured just months into the Kenyatta regime.
Not every ‘expert’ has the expertise to back up their argument.
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How to use language clues to see through someone’s ‘expert’ facade.
Most of us would rather not think about the fact that we’re immersed in an electromagnetic soup of radio waves.
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Hiding in plain sight, they’re subtle reminders that we’re being watched, tracked, studied.
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Refugees from non-English speaking backgrounds with disabilities face the twin obstacles of English language courses that don’t work for them and disability services that don’t speak their language.