Tag: vocabulary

  • Nation & World

    Breaking down ‘Beowulf’

    Using a statistical approach known as stylometry, which analyzes everything from the poem’s meter to the number of times different combinations of letters show up in the text, a team of researchers found new evidence that “Beowulf” is the work of a single author.

    8 minutes
    Madison Krieger.
  • Nation & World

    Smarter by the minute, sort of

    New research from Harvard and MIT shows that different cognitive skills peak at different times in lifespan.

    5 minutes