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Nautilus

Matthew Francis

Geoscience

Earth’s Stash of Gold Comes From Colliders Fit for Gods

Julie Sedivy has taught linguistics and psychology at Brown University and the University of Calgary. She is the author of Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics and most recently, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love.

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