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March 12, 2010 | By Suzanna Chang

When Words Won’t Cooperate

Psychology professor Morgan Barense aims to crack the mystery of non-speaking autism Read More

Banner filled with five rows of small different coloured squares. Inside each square is one of five alternating emoji: a girl with messy hair, a samosa, a smiley face with headphones, a steel pan drum and three smiley face emoji caught up in a tornado.

Are Emoji Becoming the World’s First Universal Language?

At U of T Mississauga, students are creating their own tiny icons for our phones. “Dizzy tornado face,” anyone? Read More

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The Lost Art of Conversation

Ian Williams makes the case for talking to each other more meaningfully Read More

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Suzanna Chang

Former communications assistant, University of Toronto Magazine.

Photo by Wayne Hiebert/Ottawa Citizen, reprinted by permission

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When Words Won’t Cooperate

Are Emoji Becoming the World’s First Universal Language?

The Lost Art of Conversation

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