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What We Talk About When We Talk About Talking

Ilana Ross | Posted 05.03.2012

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Ilana Ross

The New York Times noted that a current linguistic trend called "vocal fry" is just one in a long line of largely female speech patterns that are seen often seen as a sign of stupidity. Young women who used vocal fry were being dismissed as insecure, naive, and dumb.

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Honoring W.E.B. Du Bois 2012

Dr. Tukufu Zuberi | Posted 04.24.2012

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Dr. Tukufu Zuberi

The Board of Trustees at the University of Pennsylvania appointed Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Honorary Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies on February 17th 2012. This short video captures the day's activities.

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Obama By Default

Robert Scheer | Posted 04.05.2012

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Robert Scheer

The GOP has defined itself indelibly as the party of moneyed greed and unfettered imperialism. The Republicans are a sick joke, and their narrow ideological stupidity has left rational voters no choice in the coming presidential election but Barack Obama.

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JFK And The So-Called Religious Issue

Steve Shaw | Posted 05.07.2012

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Steve Shaw

Kennedy stated that, "... I am not the Catholic candidate for president. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president, who happens also to be a Catholic."

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What 'Baaad' News About Goats Says About Human Speech

Posted 02.16.2012

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By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 02/15/2012 07:32 PM EST on LiveScience Goats don't have their own language, but they do s...

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Elections Are for Suckers

Robert Scheer | Posted 04.09.2012

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Robert Scheer

Our own elections, the ones our government has modeled for the world, are a hoax. What other word should we use to describe this year's presidential election, whose outcome will turn on which party's Super PACs gets the most generous bribes from billionaires?

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Drinking the Kool-Aid That Is TEDMED

Diana Nyad | Posted 03.28.2012

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Diana Nyad

If you haven't yet sipped the TED Kool-Aid, get yourself a straw. I've been a public speaker for 35 years now but hit the Mt. Everest of conferences when I spoke for the TEDMED group this past October.

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Obama's Faux Populism Sounds Like Bill Clinton

Robert Scheer | Posted 03.27.2012

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Robert Scheer

If Obama meant what he said in Tuesday's State of the Union address about holding the financial industry responsible for its scams, why did he appoint the old Clinton crowd that had legalized those scams to the top economic posts in his administration?

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Help Me Understand...

John Joss | Posted 03.10.2012

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John Joss

Our inability to express ourselves with clarity, simplicity and vigor is the death of effective human affairs. The light at the end of the tunnel is that we, if we care enough to speak and write properly, will shine.

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Government-Sponsored Sinner

Robert Scheer | Posted 02.07.2012

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Robert Scheer

The driving faith of the GOP has become the notion that the toxic mixture of moral hypocrisy and unfettered greed is a formula for victory. Newt Gingrich could be their man.

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'Speak To The Baby!' And Other Rules About Speech We Don't Need To Follow

Rhiana Maidenberg | Posted 01.03.2012

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Rhiana Maidenberg

During the times I was alone with the baby and the toddler was at preschool, I treasured the moments of quiet, relishing in the child that could not yet talk. As Phyllis Diller so eloquently put: "We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up."

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Jon Ward

WATCH: Rick Perry's Unusual Speech Performance in N.H.

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 12.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry raised some eyebrows Friday night with a speech performance in Manchester, N.H., that was u...

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If a Republican Were President

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.13.2011

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Robert Scheer

No doubt many reasonable Americans will view Obama as the lesser evil come election time, and for some that will prove compelling. But I take the dreary choices to be one akin to a form of slow torture. Better to support the Occupy Wall Street protests as an inspiring alternative.

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Don't Dismiss Ahmadinejad's UN Speech

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.22.2011

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Shirin Sadeghi

It is a sad state of world affairs when there is only one person who takes the UN and its handful of leaders to task when given the opportunity. It is even sadder that that one man's words will change nothing for the devastated majority of this world who suffer from those leaders' sins.

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Friday Talking Points -- Give 'Em Hell, Barry!

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.09.2011

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Chris Weigant

President Barack Obama opened his re-election campaign last night with a wowzer of a speech to a joint session of Congress.

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Friday Talking Points -- Labor Daze

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.02.2011

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Chris Weigant

It surpasses all irony and actually enters into the realm of bitter humor that we're about to celebrate Labor Day when the unemployment rate remains at the sky-high level of 9.1 percent.

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Huntsman Takes Issue With GOP Primary 'Drama'

Posted 11.01.2011

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(AP) WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman calls the fuss over the timing of President Barack Obama's job speech "nonsense," sa...

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Why Google's Eric Schmidt Is Only Partly Right About Science & Tech Education

Ewan McIntosh | Posted 10.30.2011

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Ewan McIntosh

It's a shame that Eric Schmidt he didn't Google a little more on the education system of the country in which he was speaking. Scotland.

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King's Eloquence Goes Far Beyond "I Have A Dream"

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2011

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Chris Weigant

The best-known parts of "I Have A Dream" have entered into a sort of comfortable familiarity, which allows everyone to view them without being challenged by the more pointed things Dr. King had to say that day.

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Watch Your Mouth, Dude

Jen Sincero | Posted 10.22.2011

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Jen Sincero

I grew up in suburban New York, and my family wasn't much on traveling, so when I arrived at my alma matter, The Colorado College, I'd never been out ...

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Ramadan Reflection Day 18: Being Mindful Of Our Words

Imam Khalid Latif | Posted 10.18.2011

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Imam Khalid Latif

Fasting is about a lot more than not eating or drinking. It serves as an opportunity to become conscious of other habits and character flaws that we as individuals have and sets up an opportunity for us to try to overcome them.

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Obama and the Debt Crisis

Jerry Weissman | Posted 10.09.2011

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Jerry Weissman

Actions Speak Louder than Words As a presentations coach, I show archival videos as positive and negative role models to demonstrate what participant...

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Presidential Words Still Matter

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 10.05.2011

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Clarence B. Jones

A birthday present for the president would be for his speech writers to review some of their ridiculous use of the English language to convey the appropriate political message of the president.

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WATCH: Comedian Does Bill Pullman's 'Independence Day' Speech For NYC

Posted 09.05.2011

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While you were sitting on your butt watching fireworks this holiday weekend, comedian Sean Kleier was out being a patriot. He took it upon himself...

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Catherine Pearson

Tot Late To Talk? When To Stress

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 09.03.2011

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When parents go to New York-based certified speech-language pathologist Tanya Hefets, they are often overcome with fear and frustration. Their son...

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