Juan Orlando Hernández’s escape from legal accountability at home and abroad point to the larger challenges of democracy building under the shadow of US power.
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Both President Trump and Vice President Vance pronounce Iran as ‘Ih-RAN,’ not ‘Ih-RON.’ A linguist says that how the country’s name is pronounced may be a political choice.
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A common US-centric narrative holds that the Cuban missile crisis ended when Washington stood firm against the Soviets. But that story ignores a whole continent.
An expert in American dialects explains how a ‘health drink’ from the early 1800s spawned so many names and variations.
Mountain chickadees follow systematic grammarlike rules to share important information, stringing together syllables like words in a sentence.
You may call him Santa Claus, but the bearded guy in the red suit is a man known by many names. That doesn’t make him disreputable, just a reflection of changing American culture.
Language changes because of how it finds itself most gainfully employed by speakers through time. So it’s OK to say “The movie literally blew my mind” and not mean it … literally.
Politicians have long used the phrase ‘I misspoke’ when backpedaling for verbal inaccuracies or blunders. Now it’s used as a euphemistic recasting of lying as an inadvertent mistake.
Los pastores grababan nombres, lemas, siluetas de desnudos y mucho más en los árboles que les rodeaban durante las temporadas solitarias en las montañas. Ahora, los investigadores se apresuran a encontrar y grabar los arborglifos antes de que desaparezcan.
Herders carved names, slogans, nude silhouettes and more into the trees around them during lonely seasons in the mountains. Now, researchers rush to find and record the arborglyphs before they disappear.
These tiny songbirds have extraordinary memories for the tens of thousands of spots where they hide food. But that doesn’t help when heavy snow blocks their access.
Long treated as a sign of anxiety or a delaying tactic, ‘filled pauses’ are a linguistic trick to signal that what you are about to say might be complicated.
Freshwater megafish numbers have fallen by 94%, according to one study.
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Professor of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno
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Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Nevada, Reno
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Associate Vice President of Compliance and Research Administration, University of Nevada, Reno
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Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
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Professor of History, University of Nevada, Reno
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Librarian and Head of the Jon Bilbao Basque Library, University of Nevada, Reno
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Professor of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno
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Pesquisadora e docente em políticas de saúde, University of Nevada, Reno
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Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Reno
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno, University of Nevada, Reno
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Ph.D. Student in Cognitive Ecology, University of Nevada, Reno
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Research Scientist in River Ecosystems, University of Nevada, Reno
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Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno
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Professor of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno