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By analyzing data on multilingual Twitter users and Wikipedia editors and on 30 years' worth of book translations in 150 countries, researchers at MIT, Harvard University, Northeastern University, and Aix Marseille University have developed network maps that they say represent the strength of the cultural connections between speakers of different languages.

This week, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they show that a language's centrality in their network -- as defined by both the number and the strength of its connections -- better predicts the global fame of its speakers than either the population or the wealth of the countries in which it is spoken.

"The network of languages that are being translated is an aggregation of the social network of the planet," says Cesar Hidalgo, the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Career Development Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and senior author on the paper. "Not everybody shares a language with everyone else, and therefore the global social network is structured through these circuitous paths in which people in some language groups are by definition way more central than others. That gives them a disproportionate power and responsibility. On the one hand, they have a much easier time disseminating the content that they produce. On the other hand, as information flows through people, it gets colored by the ideas and the biases that those people have."

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Hidalgo and his students Shahar Ronen -- first author on the new paper -- and Kevin Hu, together with Harvard's Steven Pinker, Bruno Goncalves of Aix Marseille University, and Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern, included a given Twitter user in their data set if he or she had at least three sentence-long tweets in a language other than his or her primary language. That left them with 17 million of Twitter's roughly 280 million users. They had similar thresholds for Wikipedia users who had edited entries in more than one language, which gave them a data set of 2.2 million Wikipedia editors.

In both cases, the strength of the connection between any two languages was determined by the number of users who had demonstrated facility with both of them.

The translation data came from UNESCO's Index Translationum, which catalogues 2.2 million book translations, in more than 1,000 languages, published between 1979 and 2011. There, the strength of the connection between two languages was determined by the number of translations between them.

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*The Rev. Al Sharpton may have kept the plight of those protesting the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner in the public eye with this past weekends March on Washington, but rapper/actor/TV host Bow Wow was not moved.

The 106 & Park co-host voiced his opinion about Sharpton and his motivation for being amongst the protestors with the following post on his Facebook page:

Stationed outside the U. S. Capital, Sharpton stood next to the families affected by the loss of loved ones at the hands of police as he proclaimed the movement to bring wrongdoing by the police to light will not end anytime soon.

You thought youd sweep it under the rug. You thought thered be no limelight. We are going to keep the light on Michael Brown, on Eric Garner, on Tamir Rice, on all of these victims because the only way Im sorry, I come out of the hood the only way you can make roaches run, you got to cut the light on, Sharton said.

Bow Wows post apparently struck a nerve with a few folks. Some who saw it agreed with what he wrote, while others wondered exactly what he was doing for the cause. The post is the latest shot fired by the entertainer, who criticized Sharptons presence in Ferguson in August after Browns death. According to Bow Wow, the MSNBC host has a habit of always being where the TV cameras are.

Bow Wow isnt the only one coming down on Sharptons knack for attracting public attention to him. The activist caught a thumbs down from the aunt of Akai Gurley, the young man who got shot in a dark stairwell last month by a rookie cop in Brooklyn. In her eyes, Sharpton was guilty of doing too much as the family prepared to bury Akai. So much so that she told the New York Post that Sharpton tried to deliver the eulogy without talking to the family about it first.

So does Bow Wowreally have a point with what hes saying about Sharpton or is it a question of what has Bow Wow done for the cause?

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Real estate mogul and reality-TV star told MailOnline that Pascal's troubles are far from over 'Al Sharpton will toy with her, use her and then dispose of her,' Trump said in an exclusive interview Rumors are swirling that the Sony pictures co-chair will be fired to 'set an example' Pascal's emails were leaked online in a hack thought to be carried out by a group with ties to the North Korean regime Some emails were racially charged, including a few that joked about President Obama's preference for financing only movies with slave themes

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Published: 21:08 EST, 15 December 2014 | Updated: 03:46 EST, 16 December 2014

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Real estate titan Donald Trump said Monday that Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal should quit her job because of the 'stupidity' involved with asking Rev. Al Sharpton for advice.

Pascal has been caught up in a maelstrom of outrage since her emails were leaked online following a computer hacking spree. Some of those messages were racially insensitive, and Pascal sought out Sharpton to help insulate her from criticism.

'The [co-chair] of Sony, Amy Pascal, when she goes out and says "I'm going to seek the advice of Rev. Al Sharpton," who I know very well, she should probably resign for stupidity reasons,' Trump said.

'Al Sharpton will toy with her, use her and then dispose of her.'

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