As a proxy for humans' connection to nature across time, Richardson turned to books, specifically data lifted from Google ...

Search engines that scour Web pages for specific words work pretty well, although there's a lot of weeding out of old and weird results. Kleinberg's software is different. It looks at data without ...

The study confirms the fundamental assumption in conceptual metaphor theory that metaphors are enduring linguistic and cognitive structures, not merely rhetorical figures. Using complex systems tools, ...

Baboons can recognize written words, study findsBaboons don’t read, don’t speak and perhaps can’t understand language at all. But scientists have found that they can learn to recognize ...