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Why Not Record Your Children For Three Years To See How They Learn?

October 1, 2015 by Gina Hagler Leave a Comment

What can I say? Offbeat science sings to me. Penguins and their bubbles. Honey bees and their ills. These stories pique my interest and hold it. The same can be said for stories about language acquisition. I got hooked on that in high school when a classmate and I duplicated the experiments run by Chomsky…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: language, ted talk

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New Study Says Language Biased Towards Happiness. Yes, Even Twitter.

February 9, 2015 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

Do you think human communication is overall happy or positive? Well, you’re reading a blog called Bitter Empire and our demographics say y’all spend a lot of time on the Twitters so our guess is no. But you’d be wrong! A new study completed by researchers at the University of Vermont has discovered that human…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: bias, happiness, Harry Potter, language, pollyanna hypothesis, University of Vermont

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