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Larry Olin Horn.
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“The news is full of headlines about Senator Clinton’s “apology” for her tone-deaf comment about the RFK assassination…. But from a [...]
Language Log’s ongoing ridicule of the BBC’s science reporting continues with Parrots and children: still silly season at the BBC:
There are people writing purportedly serious stories for the British Broadcasting Corporation who think that a grey parrot has the cognitive ability of a normal six year old human child. Have these people never met [...]
