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The People Who Created Our Dictionary Have Been Largely Forgotten—Until Now
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAn excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the...
The patchwork of UK crypto regulation is still too complex to bring real benefit
Euronews via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoWhile there are benefits to each of the existing regulations, they are part and parcel of a system...
Reimagining Battersea Power Station for the 21st Century
WWD via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe 20th-century landmark was in a parlous state when architects began working on it nearly 10 years...
‘Impossible’ to decarbonise F1 without alternative fuels, says Nico Rosberg
PA Media: Science via Yahoo Canada News· 9 months agoIt is “impossible” for F1 to decarbonise without the development of alternative fuels, former driver...
Philip Pullman is honored in Oxford, and tells fans when to expect his long-awaited next book
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 9 months agoFans of Philip Pullman have been waiting almost five years for the final instalment in the author’s...
How J.R.R. Tolkien's novels were inspired by Medieval poems of 'northern bravery'
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 11 months agoKnights travel to battle in an illustration from a Medieval manuscript. British Library, CC BY-SA In...
Fears that English is ‘disappearing’ in England are misplaced – history shows the island has always...
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoA common lament among those opposed to immigration is that “in many parts of England, you don’t hear...
A 21-year-old won $40,000 for using AI to read the first word on a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll...
Business Insider via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoThe University of Kentucky team scanned the Herculaneum scroll and took X-ray images of the...
Language isn't 'alive' – why this metaphor can be misleading
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoTartila/Shutterstock “Living”, “evolving” and “dead”: we often talk about languages as if they were...