Tag Archives: Speech
Google is spying on your private conversations, manipulating search results: researcher
LifeSiteNews | youtube.com Dr. Robert Epstein is Harvard-trained researcher who believes the four major tech giants have become too dangerous for our democracy. He thinks the massive amount of surveillance, censorship, and manipulation carried out by the likes of Google … Continue reading
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Take to streets’ over web plans
BBC News World wide web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said it will be necessary to protest “in the streets” against plans to increase internet monitoring. Sir Tim told the BBC he was worried there would not be “much control” … Continue reading
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The Codes of Gender
Sut Jhally Free Speech TV Written and directed by MEF Executive Director Sut Jhally, The Codes of Gender applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman’s groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape, showing how one of American popular culture’s … Continue reading
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Japan invents speech-jamming gun that silences people mid-sentence
Newscore TOKYO (Newscore) – Japanese researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence. Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University, developed a portable “SpeechJammer” gun … Continue reading
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Podcast: Saving Endangered Languages
Kerry Klein Science Now How can speakers of endangered languages protect their mother tongues from dying? And does modern technology help preserve disappearing speech? Science’s Kerry Klein speaks with Meg Noori and David Harrison about their attempts to protect endangered … Continue reading
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Gillard staff planned for coup
Sydney Morning Herald Julia Gillard insists she decided to challenge Kevin Rudd only on the day she confronted him, after fresh allegations last night that her staff began preparing her acceptance speech two weeks before she rolled Mr Rudd for … Continue reading
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Why singing helps people with speech disorders – it’s about the rhythm not the tune
Source: Daily Mail It was a technique that therapist Lionel Logue used to help George VI, as shown in The King’s Speech – now scientists have discovered why singing is so effective at treating a stammer. Surprisingly it has nothing … Continue reading →