Dementia is a loss of brain function and affects memory, thinking, language, judgment and behavior.
Like the Neanderthals, the newcomers had been busy, too, developing advanced tools and weapons, better navigational skills, trade, complex language, art and other forms of symbolic thinking.
Mr Blunkett is now thinking about introducing induction and language classes for new immigrants.
The shift is clearly away from memorization and towards critical thinking where medical training programs will help student to use powerful discovery and language analysis tools like Watson to help them evaluate medical case scenarios and find evidence to help them carefully rationalize decisions.
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Beginning this year, the city will rely heavily on a test that mostly assesses spatial thinking skills and uses almost no words or language.
People often use language without thinking about the literal meaning of what they are saying and without considering what the person on the receiving end is thinking.
Hein is far from the only person thinking about the language people should be using to describe women (and the terms women are using to self-describe).
Companies thinking about their public privacy language may well look at this result and decide that the legally cautious thing to do is to be as vague and imprecise as possible in their privacy statements.
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Terms such as "moderate" and "radical" are bandied about so freely as to mean next to nothing, and cliched phrases like "sleeper cells, " "alienated Muslims, " "radicalization, " and "homegrown terrorists" degrade the language to the point that they structure the thinking about the Muslims living among us.
Somewhere along the way the writing and thinking folks (on both sides of the Atlantic) have ceded most of the public conversation about language to the carpers, whiners and peevers.
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