Vocabulary---How We Use It Defines Who We Are

Do you have a strong vocabulary? It is estimated that there are a million some odd words in the English language. Some of those words are designed to reflect positive, inspiring emotions, and some are not intended to be uplifting or enlightening.

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The Main Reasons We Fear Ageing

It seems that at least 42% of people fear ageing. That's nearly half of our population in the UK. Yet, like death, age is an inevitable part of our existence. We cannot NOT age just as we have to die.

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In recent years psychologists and neuroscientists have tried to get a handle on how people make voting decisions.

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Older generations - she describes them as "the people of the book" - have developed powers of imagination, empathy, context and meaning which she fears will be much reduced in "the people of the screen".

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There may never be another bird like Alex. The brainy African gray parrot, who died in September at age 31, had a grasp of numbers, colors, and even a very basic insight into the concept of 'zero' that challenged scientists' most fundamental assumptions about animal intelligence.

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