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Advanced Spanish: Language in context
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Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...les da la gana, y se dedican a transgredir esas reglas que a la generación anterior le parecen tan importantes. Lo que pasa también es que, en los últimos años, o sea en lo que va de milenio (te estoy hablando de… de una o dos generaciones, como mucho ¿no?), el… el mundo de las comunicaciones ha experimentado una transformación tan vertiginosa que ha...
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...circuits somewhere that carry the meanings of individual words by connecting the cells that respond to the phonological shape of that word to other cells which represent its non-linguistic attributes such as smell, colour, taste and so on. These circuits appear to be disrupted in fluent aphasia. In that disorder, the machinery of language is all working but it is not...
How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...Circuit board] The technology our modern society relies on is full of metals such as gold, platinum, nickel and tantalum that occur in trace amounts in rocks In language, if we put letters together, we form words. In geology, if we put elements together, we form minerals. A mineral is a naturally occurring inorganic substance having an orderly internal structure and...
Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...Le Pen may have lost in the second round, but she did manage to secure a substantial 34% of the vote. These recent political developments illustrate the demise of well-established and taken-for-granted political frameworks such as, for example, the fundamental distinction between the ‘left’ and the ‘right’ which for a long time constituted a key ideological anchor...
Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America

...le reconoce al medio natural el derecho a la restauración: "el Estado aplicará medidas de precaución y restricción para las actividades que puedan conducir a la extinción de especies, la destrucción de ecosistemas o la alteración permanente de los ciclos naturales". Y agrega que "se prohíbe la introducción de organismos y material orgánico e inorgánico que...
Advanced Spanish: Protest song
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Advanced Spanish: Protest song

...told a lie” no puede traducirse por “Ella fue contada una mentira”, sino por: “Le contaron una mentira” o “Se le contó una mentira”. La pasiva con “se” Esta construcción es más común en el lenguaje hablado e informal. Se vende esta casa. Se discutieron varias ideas. No se puede usar “por” + el agente del verbo, como en inglés (‘several ideas were discussed by the workers’). Para expresar el agente, se debe ......
Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...circuits using the chemical dopamine function to make these positively rewarding stimuli ‘attention grabbing’ (you know the attention grabbing potential of a piece of chocolate cake or a nice looking person). Now these systems seem to be a little more responsive in some people than others. So some people (high E scorers) are strongly diverted towards intrinsically...
Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium

...le Clos of South Africa in the 100m butterfly event at Rio 2016. Aside from Schooling, three other athletes from Southeast Asia have won a gold medal in Rio as of this writing. They were Thai weightlifters Sukanya Srisurat and Sopita Tanasan, and Vietnamese shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh. Schooling’s victory was special because it gave Singapore its first ever Olympic gold...