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February 19, 2021 The Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab, led by J. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, recently received nearly $1.3 million in grants to further its citizen science studies on the effects of digital technology on society. The CAT Lab received a $300,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation in December 2020; earlier this month, the lab was awarded $999,637 from the Templeton World Charity Foundation. Allison Usavage/Provided J. Nathan Matias The grants will be used in research addressing the question: How can society foster meaningful dialogue and create shared knowledge in a world connected by digital networks and shaped by algorithms? ....
Yuval Pinter writes: When an English speaker doesn t understand a word one says, it s Greek to me . When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it sounds like Chinese . I ve been told the Korean equivalent is sounds like Hebrew . Has there been a study of this phrase phenomenon, relating different languages on some kind of Directed Graph? Well, there s a Wikipedia article on the topic Greek to me with a table of correspondences, a page at Omniglot It s all Greek to me with a similar table, and a forum thread at wordreference.com. Michael Quinion has a Q&A on the origins of the English expression, which includes the suggestion that the Spanish-American word gringo comes from the expression “hablar en griego”. ....