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Many classic rock songwriters have used fictional characters in their songs to tell a story. Unlike biographical tracks, inventing a character allows the writer to explore experiences beyond their own ...

Airport runways need to be smooth and flat so planes can take-off and land safely. But if the ground under the runways is sinking, that surface can dip and crack, requiring expensive repairs.

Yet, researchers have been curious about whether discerning the inner worlds of made-up characters translates to an enhanced capacity to comprehend people in real life. Previous work revealed that ...

As a student of journalism, a lifelong avid TV watcher, and a fan of late-night TV hosts, I have always been fascinated by the way television personalities are depicted in fiction. Sometimes these ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook DC Comics does not take place in the real world, and all of its locations are fictional cities ...

This paper introduces a classification framework to analyze central bank communications across four dimensions: topic, communication stance, sentiment, and audience. Using a fine-tuned large language ...

1 Faculty of Applied Linguistics, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, Poland 2 Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria ...

After winning the Game of the Year gong for It Takes Two at the The Game Awards 2021 I’m certain that developer Hazelight Studios was positively brimming with ideas of what to do next. I’m certain of ...

Reports about a young girl shooting a police officer to save her mother originated from an account that posts fictional and satirical content. Social media posts shared, opens new tab an image ...

Human sexuality is weird and messy. We know this because of wikiFeet, PornHub search data, and the existence of the omegaverse. And yet, when a new term or concept reaches the mainstream, it can still ...