Well-meaning efforts to integrate deaf people into conventional schools and to help them learn to speak English are provoking fierce resistance from activists who favor sign language and an acknowledgment that the world of deaf ness is distinctive, rewarding, and worth preservation
How the computer listens for Shakespeare's "voiceprint"
The psychiatrist and neuroscientist Allan Hobson suggests replacing the traditional Freudian view—that dreams stem from unacceptable, hidden wishes and fears—with a more commonsense theory. Dreams, he says, are caused by spontaneous electrochemical signals in the brain, and their meaning is transparent, not obscure