How 'Deck the Halls' Lost Its Booze

"Fill the mead cup, drain the barrel" wasn't Oliphant's only line about imbibing alcohol. The bit in the second verse that ...

AI deciphers fish grunts, knocks and growls to identify eight species

University of Victoria (UVic) biologists have discovered that even closely related fish species make unique and distinctive ...
Fox News

Find a lost phone that is off or dead

Losing your phone can leave you in panic mode, especially when the battery dies. The good news is that both Apple and Android offer built-in tools that help you track a missing device even when it is ...
Indiatimes

English hack of the day: The hidden rule behind ‘a’ and ‘an’ that has nothing to do with vowels

Most of us learnt that ‘a’ goes before consonants and ‘an’ before vowels – and most of us were only half-right. This Learning with TOI English Hack explains the real rule: it is not about letters, but ...
SFGate

Scientists hail breakthrough in decoding whale communication

After poring over recordings from sperm whales in the Caribbean, UC Berkeley linguist GasperBegus had an unlikely breakthrough. According to a new study from Begus and his colleagues with Project CETI ...
Popular Science

Sperm whales use vowels like humans, new study finds

Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are working to decode. Amanda Cotton Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...
The Economist

Sperm whales communicate with vowels

AS READERS OF “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will know, humans are only the third-cleverest species on Earth. The first two places go to mice and dolphins. But perhaps Douglas Adams’s comic ...
CNN

Exhausted? The reason may be how you’re using technology

Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can Take It Back” was published ...
Nature

How to find the papers you need to read — and avoid the ones you don’t

David Brito is a postdoctoral researcher at the ABC CoLAB – Ageing Better and Algarve Biomedical Center Research Institute (ABC-RI) and, an invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine and ...
ABC News

Why is it hard to find a job right now? Experts weigh in

Worker confidence in the ability to find a job has hit a record low. Employers in nearly every industry have cut back on hiring, according to the latest data, leaving job seekers with fewer places to ...
The New York Times

‘Task’ Brings More Murder and Flattened Vowels to HBO

This new crime drama shares a creator and tone with an earlier HBO hit, “Mare of Easttown.” By Esther Zuckerman The Delco accents are as thick as an overstuffed Wawa hoagie in the new crime drama ...