November 2022

We store 1.5 megabytes of information to master our native language, study finds.

Learning a language is a remarkable feat. The amount of cognitive effort it takes for a newborn to learn a language is tremendous. We often don’t realize this because children do it seemingly effortlessly and rapidly. But it’s not what it looks like. New research shows that language acquisition requires an enormous amount of cognitive

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The Weirdest and Rarest Causes of Death You Will Ever See. 

Humans are some of the most complex beings that roams this planet. To define human beings we’d have to say that they are complex hierarchical systems consisting of a number of hierarchical levels of anatomical organization such as molecules, sub-cellular entities, cells, tissues, organs, apparatuses, and organism that interrelate differently with each other to form

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Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’s.

If it weren’t for farmers and soft food, we wouldn’t be able to utter the f-word, or any word that has the sound “f” or “v” for that matter. A new study revealed that the switch to processed food after the spread of agriculture gave humans an overbite and eventually two labiodental sounds that exist

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