1. 20 years prison or death sentence for translating the Qu'ran? Welcome to our illustrious humanistic and democratic circle, dear Afghanistan: The dangers of translation
2. Help to classify galaxies and work for science, now! You'll be shown pictures of galaxies and asked questions about their spiral arms and other features. A task which you can do better than a computer and will help astronomy: Galaxy Zoo 2
3. The 2009 Jōyō Kanji update is coming up and the two favourites are 俺 (ore, which means informal "I") and 誰 (dare, question pronoun "who?"). I think "dare" is quite common these days, even in formal context. Of course one can say donata which is more formal: Jōyō list to level up
4. Speech perception is much more than hearing sounds. There are several other senses than hearing involved: Read my lips: Using multiple senses in speech perception
5. Steven Pinker explains the critical points of his book "The Blank Slate":
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