Do you listen to a lot of music? You’re learning!

Just by listening to music, we can learn a lot about its structures and conventions. A new study (and a simple test that you can take online) suggest that even young children apply some common recognition techniques when processing both language and music.

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Categories, Types And Structures – An Introduction to Category Theory for T

The main methodological connection between programming language theory and category theory is the fact that both theories are essentially “theories of functions.” A crucial point, though, is that the categorical notion of morphism generalizes the set-theoretical description of function in a very broad sense

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Chomsky’s Universal Grammar may not be so universal after all!

The influential theory of Noam Chomsky that all natural human languages are structured according to a universal and innate set of principles and parameters (rules thought to be essential, structural limitations on thought) – is now confronted with a counterexample. The language of the Amazonian Pirahã indians does not seem to exhibit recursion!

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Multi-language Site Optimization

If you
’ve proposed to structure a multiple-language website the most difficult question will arrives how you are going to optimized it for specific language for specific country and get all page properly indexed by search engines? If you want to seriously promot

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Blackwater USA President Breaks Silence. Gives Blogger Exclusive.

The president of Blackwater USA, the world’s largest,
most controversial private military corporation has granted a rare
in-depth interview with Dr. R J Hillhouse who blogs at The Spy Who Billed Me.

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Most Simple, Concise, Complete Global Warming argument *Updated*

This guy has really taken the time to break the whole global warming argument down to it’s most simple components. He posted a similar version of this video last year but has reworked and revised the video to address all detractors. He also has a companion index video to address the common rebuttals. Everyone needs to see this at least once.

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Journalism, Media and Modernity.

Journalism.

To be within the boundaries of Ethics, a Journal-

must subscribe to these particular values: the

principles of — truthfulness, accuracy,

objectivity, impartiality, fairness and public

accountability.

such codes can be found in news reporting

organizations in most countries with

freedom of the press.

Modernity

a different term from modern times; it is deri-

ved from Modernism, a movement in art based

on the consciousness that through the mechan-

ical age of industrialism, humankind has evolved

into something very new – what that would be,

would have to be explored by art, and all prev-

ious concepts questioned.

It is a society more technically, a complex of

institutions – which unlike any preceding cult-

ures lives in the future rather than the past”

(A. Giddens,1998,p94).

Giddens has been cited because he addressed

a long-standing divide between those theorists

who prioritised ‘macro level‘ studies of social life

looking at the ‘big picture’ of society – and those

who emphasise the ‘micro level‘ what everyday

life means to individuals.

Media

Or more specifically ‘Media studies‘ is as follows

Media Studies in the tradition of empirical scie-

nces like communication studies, sociology and

economics generally focus on Mass Media, their

political, social, economic and cultural role and

impact in creating and distributing content to

media audiences. And in the tradition of human-

ities literary theory, film/video studies,

cultural studies and philosophy focus on the

constitution of media and question in how far

they shape what is regarded as knowledge and

as communicable.

Media democracy is a production and distri-

bution model which promotes a mass media

system that informs and empowers all members

of society, and enhances democratic values.

The term also refers to a modern social move-

ment evident in countries all over the world

which attempts to make mainstream media

more accountable to the publics they serve and

to create more democratic alternatives.

Democracy or World Peace?