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Terrifying- especially in recent news of the difficulty to escape increasing due to the Taliban. "Some Afghan military interpreters and other close U.S. allies, a stated priority group for evacuation from Afghanistan, are being turned away from the Kabul airport by American officials in order to give priority to U.S. citizens and green card holders, a State Department official said on Monday."

U.S. Is Turning Some Allies Away From Kabul Airport, Official Says The Pentagon is deploying helicopters and Special Forces troops beyond the airport as President Biden considers pushing back his Aug. 31 deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal. Violent clashes continued.

So cool!

Dedham SoulCycle location starts teaching spin classes with ASL interpretation - The Boston Globe Instructor Heather Mottau started learning American Sign Language when she was 13 years old and has since brought her talents to SoulCycle to make classes accessible for hard of hearing students.

So cool! Check out this article about emojis and how they can operate as nonverbals in written communication:

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"If an emoji replaces a word in a sentence, people comprehend it without issue. If an emoji that doesn’t make sense is added to a sentence, we spend more time trying to make sense of it, just as we do with nonsensical words."

Emojis aren’t debasing language – they’re enriching it | Benjamin Weissman With a new set about to be released, it’s time to consider how these symbols enhance the way we communicate, says cognitive scientist Benjamin Weissman

Wow- imagine trying to interpret and transcribe using hieroglyphics 😳

"Hieroglyphic writing doesn't have any spaces between the words, and there's no punctuation. That means that readers have to have a good grasp of ancient Egyptian grammar and know something about the context of a message in order to be able to tell individual words, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and chapters apart"

8 Facts About Ancient Egypt's Hieroglyphic Writing The script found on the insides of ancient Egyptian temples, monuments and tombs represents a complex remnant of history.