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Dog diversity and what it means to shelter dogs

How many times have you heard someone say that they are only a cat person or dog person? Have you said, "I am only a big dog person or a...
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Do intercultural couples produce bicultural children?

Mixing two cultures together in a family seems like easy arithmetic: 1+1= 2, right? However the reality for many so-called bicultural children is...
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Zoroastrianism and the Book of Kings, a lecture in Sunnyvale

Now in the name of that Lord who controls / Wisdom, and has created human souls, / Exalted beyond all that thought or speech / Is able to encompass...
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The Odyssey of a writer from Shiraz to Stanford

Shahriar Mandanipour © author's website Regarded as one of the best contemporary Iranian novelists, Shahriar Mandanipour is the guest speaker...
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Omar Khayyam, the poet of uncertainty

Eleventh century Persian poet, philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, Omar Khayyam was born and raised in Naishapur, Iran. One of the giants...
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MLA deplores attacks on Iranian universities

Modern Language Association (MLA), the most prestigious organization to promote the study and teaching of language and literature in the United...
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Q and U: A match for the ages

The least-used letter in the English alphabet isn't, as most would assume, the 26th. Though it mimics the sound of a few letters prior to it in...
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The first English dictionary: Rules, references, and comedy

Believe it or not, last month was the 257th anniversary of "A Dictionary of the English Language." Written by Dr. Samuel Johnson, the...
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Mathematicians prove that English is an overall positive language

Math and words? The unlikely combination has yielded an equally unlikely result. Mathematicians at the University of Vermont have been going back...
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Celebrations for the Portuguese Language Day in the Bay Area and more

On May 5, we celebrate the Portuguese Language Day. Known as the “Last Flower of Lácio”, by a Brazilianpoet Olavo Bilac,the Portuguese...
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