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Roots of Speech Found in Humming Fish

All vocalizing creatures share common brain circuit, researchers find

(Newser) - The songs of birds, the hums and grunts of toadfish, and the lofty speech of humans all use the same ancient brain circuit, despite an evolutionary split 400 million years ago, reports National Geographic. Researchers have discovered that the base of the hindbrain and upper spinal cord is the starting...

Obama: Swift End to Iraq War Will Strengthen Security

Candidate makes position crystal clear

(Newser) - Barack Obama will promise a swift end to the Iraq war in a major speech today, arguing that the ongoing conflict “distracts us from every threat that we face,” according to excerpts obtained by Politico. As president, Obama would take the fight to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan....

McCain Spiffing Up His Act
 McCain Spiffing Up His Act 
Jul 6, 2008 6:25 AM CDT

McCain Spiffing Up His Act

He's working to improve stilted speeches, onstage awkwardness

(Newser) - With his small stature and tendency to stumble over words, John McCain struggles behind a podium, the New York Times notes. “The only time I would put him behind a podium at all” during the campaign “is when he’s announcing a policy position,” said his former...

Bush Edits Jefferson on Religion
 Bush Edits Jefferson on Religion
Jul 5, 2008 11:00 AM CDT

Bush Edits Jefferson on Religion

President leaves out phrase condemning 'monkish ignorance'

(Newser) - Thomas Jefferson may be a founding father, but that doesn’t stop President Bush’s speechwriters from editing his words as they see fit, Ed Brayton writes on his blog, Dispatches from the Culture Wars. In a July 4 speech, Bush recited a famous Jefferson quote on “the blessings...

Obama Planning Huge Convention Rally

Democratic nominee will give speech before 76,000-seat stadium

(Newser) - Barack Obama isn’t canceling the last day of the Democratic National Convention, as was rumored earlier this week—he’s turning it into a massive rally at the Denver Bronco’s Invesco Field, sources tell the Los Angles Times. Obama is confident he can fill the 76,000-seat stadium...

Lost Gandhi Recording Resurfaces
Lost Gandhi Recording Resurfaces
Jul 1, 2008 1:09 PM CDT

Lost Gandhi Recording Resurfaces

Rare speech in English calls for Indian unity and message of 'love'

(Newser) - A long-lost recording of a Mahatma Gandhi speech has emerged in the collection of an American journalist, the Washington Post reports. In the 1947 speech, one of only two known recordings of the spiritual and political leader speaking in English, Gandhi calls for peace and unity. The day before, he...

Obama Gets Personal With Voters

Senator aims to shed pure-rhetoric image

(Newser) - Seeking to shake criticism that he’s nothing more than a talented orator, Barack Obama has spent the week meeting voters face-to-face, the New York Times reports. His massive primary-campaign rallies were energizing, but also “isolating,” said his chief strategist. So instead the presumptive Democratic nominee has hosted...

Pundits Blast McCain's 'Pathetic' Speech

Also, the lime-green background didn't go over well

(Newser) - McCain’s pre-buttal to Obama’s clinching speech last night didn’t go down well on either side of the press corps aisle. A sampling of the negative reactions, via Huffington Post:
  • Obamacan Andrew Sullivan laughs off Mac’s joust at Dem divisions, and says his “opening gambit in
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A Call for a Clinton Speech on Sexism
 A Call for a Clinton Speech on Sexism 
Opinion
Jun 1, 2008 7:56 AM CDT

A Call for a Clinton Speech on Sexism

Campaign's end invites candor and courage —not counting slights

(Newser) - The time is ripe for Hillary Clinton to speak out on gender discrimination openly and honestly, writes Anna Holmes in the New York Times. After she ends her bid for the White House, such a move wouldn’t be called a political stunt, and would afford her the opportunity “...

Eloquence Can, in Fact, Be Presidential
 Eloquence
 Can, in Fact,
 Be Presidential 
Opinion
May 16, 2008 4:17 PM CDT

Eloquence Can, in Fact, Be Presidential

Those dismissing Obama's speaking skills miss a key point of the role of a president

(Newser) - It’s a bit weird to defend something like eloquence, but that’s just the task to which the primary season has inspired Calvin Trillin, writing in the Los Angeles Times. Rivals and pundits alike dismiss Barack Obama’s eloquence as some kind of liability, whereas Trillin sees in the...

Thriller Joins Top US History Trove

Jackson hit album added to prestigious aural archives

(Newser) - Michael Jackson's Thriller has been added to the prestigious National Recording Registry's archive of the most important recordings in American history, Variety reports. The monster 1982 hit joins 24 other "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" new additions to the collection, including a 1925 recording of the first-ever broadcast to...

Baby Birds' Babbling Suggests Intricate Brain

How our feathered friends learn, play back song may hold answers for human speech

(Newser) - Being bird-brained might not be much of an insult: New MIT research paints a more intricate portrait of how songbirds learn to sing, with one part of the brain used for learning and another for singing itself. Rather than maturing from babbling to birdsong, the independent but overlapping pathways work...

Me Caveman, Me Talk
Me Caveman, Me Talk
Oct 19, 2007 5:20 AM CDT

Me Caveman, Me Talk

Gene indicates Neanderthals may have had language capabilities like ours

(Newser) - Neanderthals may have spoken much like we do, new research shows. Scientists examined a gene linked to language called FOXP2 in the DNA of cavemen bones discovered in northern Spain, and found that it was identical to ours. The gene is the only one known to be involved in human...

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