Researchers in Antarctica developed a strange accent after being isolated for 6 months

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A research station is being visited by a dozen or so people in yellow jackets.
A stock image shows a base in Antartica. This base Argentina's Almirante Brown, in Paradise Harbour, and is unrelated to the story.

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Forget Sam Altman. America's greatest AI visionary is... an English professor in Illinois

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Ted Underwood
Our greatest AI visionary isn't Sam Altman or Bill Gates. It's Ted Underwood, an English professor at the University of Illinois.

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How can you tell if someone isn’t really into doing you a favor?

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Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down
Every two minutes or so, all over the world, someone asks someone else for a small favor. and all over the world, almost everyone says yes. All the time.

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How humans behave during natural disasters

You can earn up to $25 an hour training AI to write better in other languages

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Scale AI job listing for AI Training for Spanish Writers
Scale AI is looking for writers to train AI models to become better writers.

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An Air Canada passenger says he was left furious after being served in business class by a flight attendant who didn't speak French

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Air Canada plane
The passenger was flying on Air Canada from Quebec City to Florida.

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Worf's Picard Calmness Was Inspired by the Star Trek Spinoff Michael Dorn Always Wanted

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While Worf was never quite the always-angry kind of Klingon in Star Trek—to give him that push and pull between his people’s warrior culture and his place within Starfleet—the version of him we’ve now met in Picard’s

14 Internet-Adjacent Slang Words Newly Added to Dictionary.com

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Every so often, dictionaries spruce up their database of lexicography in order to get with the times. Dictionary.com is no different, and announced this week the new additions to the website’s catalog of words.

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10 surprising language differences I encountered as an American visiting Scotland for the first time

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Talia Lakritz in Scotland.
The author in Scotland.

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