Addressing a large crowd at a Gita recitation event on December 7 at Kolkata’s Brigade parade ground, West Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose made the claim that Hindi was India’s ‘rashtra bhasha’ or ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

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Playing the GOLF World Top 100 is often cast as the Mount Everest of golf travel. Augusta, for most, is as remote as the death zone. But the climb is not as forbidding as it sounds. Of the courses on ...

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Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...