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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Ordering words to create a variety of meanings (syntax) is a key aspect of human language. Although other animals have language, none so far have been shown to have syntax -- until now. Here, ...

Some American and Canadian teachers use dual language bilingual education (DLBE) to teach content in two languages, which ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The goal of a lambda expression in Java is to implement a single method. All Java methods have ...

Grammar columnist and expert June Casagrande dives into why we use the em dash and the AI myths associated with it.

We start this page with the hypothesis that the lexicon is initially underspecified: that some features may be NIL (not specified as either plus or minus). A NIL feature is represented either with no ...

THE analysis of mathematics has given rise to important schools of philosophical thought in recent years. Progress has indeed been such that it is now almost impossible to discuss certain fundamental ...