While there has been a plethora of inquiries into reported speech, cross-linguistic analysis the source segments in political news reports is still rarity. This study aims at three-fold investigation: first, tracking frequency, transparency, and types sources; second, identifying strategies employed to introduce these sources text, third, interrogating contextual elements. To this end, bottom-u...

Online news comments are often confronted with issues of civility and inclusivity, which are sometimes pegged to the anonymity afforded to contributors in those spaces. In this work we study one form of anonymity in online comments that manifests as users changing their display name when they write a given comment. We undertake a predominantly quantitative analysis of how display names are chan...

In a recent article in Nature [1], titled Gain-assisted superluminal light propagation, experimentalists reported observing a laser pulse propagating faster than the speed of light through a gas cell which served as a amplifying medium. They state that the "peak of the pulse appears to leave the cell before entering it". This article generated a great deal of press attention around the world. F...