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Gettysburg Address event marks 150th anniversary of President Lincoln’s historic speech

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Do television and electronic games predict children’s psychosocial adjustment?

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Nerd siblings are awesome siblings

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Such deep roots you have: How Little Red Riding Hood’s tale evolved

Did all these stories spring from a common source? To resolve that question, Tehrani took 58 variants of the X-eats-Y tale and classified them based on 72 plot variables: For example, are the protagonists human children or animals? Male or female? What kind of creature plays the villain? Do the protagonists escape, and if so,…