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  • The Academic Minute for 2017.8.28-9.1

    The Academic Minute for 2017.8.28-9.1

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    Academic Minute from 8.28- 9.1 Monday, August 28th Mark Canada – Indiana University Kokomo The Danger of Fake News Mark Canada, Professor of English and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Indiana University Kokomo, has drawn on his own experience in both journalism and literature to write extensively about the intersections of the two…

  • Caleb Everett, University of Miami – Anumeric Societies

    Caleb Everett, University of Miami – Anumeric Societies

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    Could we live our lives without numbers? Caleb Everett, anthropological linguistics professor at the University of Miami, discusses how some primitive societies still do and how we use numbers to make our lives easier. I’m a cognitive scientist, more specifically an anthropological linguist. My research examines the ways language affects and reflects human thought. Much…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2017.8.28)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2017.8.28)

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    This Week on The Academic Minute 2017.8.28 Monday, August 28th Mark Canada of Indiana University Kokomo discusses the lure and danger of ‘fake news.’ Tuesday, August 29th Sahana Mukherjee of Gettysburg College explores how photos of the past can influence our national identity today. Wednesday, August 30th R. Khari Brown of Wayne State University examines how…