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Tahun-tahun pertama kehidupan anak adalah kesempatan terbaik bagi mereka untuk memperluas kosa kata dan kemampuan berbahasa.
The earliest years of children’s lives represent some of the best opportunities to expand their vocabulary and language skills.
Two experts ask whether dads are making their health a priority. Evidence suggests not. Pressures to provide income often hold fathers back.
Lee, who is blind and autistic, upended the assumption, held by many, that people with disabilities lack rich interior lives.
In the ongoing arms race to kill off mosquitoes that spread malaria, researchers have modified a naturally occurring fungus that kills mosquitoes with a deadly toxin to wipe out these insects faster.
The discovery of a fungus fossil is pushing back the origin of these ancient organisms and rewriting what we know about evolution and the tree of life.
Yeast isn’t just important for the foods we consume. A rogue lineage of yeast species that evolves faster than any other is revealing secrets that may help illuminate the molecular causes of cancer.
Chinese electric vehicle sales already amount to more than half of the world’s total – and car makers and battery manufacturers are working hard to grow even faster.
Billions of people already have ‘superhero powers’ like the ability to see things far away and summon their friends from far-flung locations. Next up? Enhanced physical abilities.
Vladimir Putin’s complaints about Western power over telecommunications echo – if not co-opt – concerns raised by less powerful nations for decades.
Democratic lawmakers have offered a number of ways to reverse decades of widening economic inequality. A tax expert gives them a closer look.
Many Renaissance-era masterworks depicted rape and sexual assault as erotic. Beginning in the 1970s, artists worked to redefine rape as a crime of aggression and act of female subjugation.
Live performances account for more than 40 percent of their income, while profits from streaming and record sales amount to only 5 percent of their earnings.
As organs go, lungs do not receive a lot of attention, and diseases associated with them, such as lung cancer, historically have been underfunded. Here’s a look at how your amazing lungs function.
History shows that diplomacy takes time and many incremental steps forward, a diplomacy expert writes.
Catholic Church records document the earliest black history in the US, going back to the 1590s. These records tell the histories of Africans, free and enslaved, who were part of Spanish expeditions.
Biologists investigated whether birds that search for multiple mates would evolve ever more elaborate songs to attract them. What they found might have surprised Darwin.
The Apportionment Clause forbids a direct tax on wealth. Expanding the 16th Amendment would not only allow such a tax but abolish slavery’s last remnant in the US Constitution as well.
Meeting with heads of state has become routine for presidents, but Trump’s way with words and gestures rattles many in the diplomatic community. The biggest concern is his sweet talk to dictators.
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Associate Professor of History, Jewish Studies and European Studies, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University
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Critical Care Registered Nurse, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science and Director of LAPOP, Vanderbilt University
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David K. Wilson Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
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Research Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
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Ph.D. Student in Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
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Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
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Senior Statistician and Research Lead, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of LAPOP Lab, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
