An MIT linguist has discovered that a shift in voice pitch identifies whether a sentence will be a statement or a question. Babies learn whether a stream of words is to be declarative or interrogative from the pitch order.
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Earlier Articles Bag
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Required reading of essential works - the canons - of conservative, progressive, and radical left educational establishments in America reveal the ideology and its origin of the New Left that is represented in the White House by President Obama - Humanism and Terrorism
In revolutionary Marxism, humanism requires terror against the violence of capitalism - Values Journal (ongoing series of numbered articles)
Philosophically speculative natural history of human values - Is Islam A False Religion? (4 articles)
Can there be a "false" religion? God's truth and the nonbeliever. - Mood and Post-Modern Politics (9 articles)
A primer on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, father of post-modernism - Introduction to Values (8 articles)
What are values? - Ontology of Values (5 articles)
A theory of the objectivity of values, contra post-modernism - Total Schools (6 articles)
The role of Brown v. Board of Education and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in creating totalitarian schools to mold the subjectivity of students - The Reign of Subjectivity (9 articles)
The role of Brown v Board of Education of 1954 in directing the schools toward a curriculum devoted to the subjective feelings of students - University Lights (6 articles)
Why university profs belong to Democratic Party, are Liberal and often Left; desperation and viciousness in academic life; class system of the professors; how affirmative action and sexual harassment aggrevate academic viciousness and destroy excellence. - Propaganda and News (9 articles)
Analysis of the definition and kinds of propaganda; an argument for a narrow use of the term; explanation of major social differences in how words and concepts obtain meanings; what is at stake in the mud-slinging between political partisans when the word propaganda is used. - The Folly of News Journalism (4 articles)
The investigative method of news journalism; why it is flawed; alternative methods.
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