Career-related website or An expert in your field

Hi, peeps, for today you can choose between two interesting topics: A website related to your career or an expert in your field. Obviously, I will give the sample language for both.

First, let's go with the career-related website I like.

The career-related website that I enjoy the most is Wikipedia (wikipedia.org). This website is an open encyclopedia that can be updated everyday by people from all over the world. The website has many sections and features being the most important one the ability to search in any given language any topic that you want. You just have to type a topic, pick a language and that's it. If wikipedia does not find your exact topic, it will provide other related topics.
I visit wikipedia weekly to look for information, decide disputes or just invest (waste for some people, but that depends on the point view) time.
I really like this site because inside each article, you find links to the articles of related topics, names of the people involved and you can click on them and continue learning. I have spent hours going from article to article only by clicking on the links, you can start reading about 9/11 conspiration theories and end up reading about the second law of thermodynamics. I also really like the fact that you have to give references for the claims you make in the articles because that gives wikipedia seriousness, for example. if an article does not have any references, wikipedia will post a notice stating that as a means to prevent people from believing in falsified or unreferenced articles

Now, let's go for the second topic.

One person that I really admire from Linguistics is Michael Tomasello. He is a North-American psychologist who studied his BA and PhD in the US and currently works in Germany. His main area of research is to establish the cognitive and cultural differences between humans and primates. In order to establish these differences, Tomasello has worked with different types of primates such as apes and bonobos, and he has studied how children acquired cultural norms to be active members of society. For example, he has established that primates share with humans some means to attract and direct the attention of others by using their hands and eyes. Also, great apes use gestures to communicate like we sometimes do.
When studying children's acquisition of cultural norms, he has focused on language acquisition. He posits the idea that language acquisition is a crucial aspect of the acquisition of cultural norms. On this topic, he has earned a very powerful enemy called Noam Chomsky. Tomasello goes against Chomsky's theory that children have an innate component in their brains to acquire language. Instead and based on his extensive research with primates and children, he posits the idea that children acquire language by learning social functions and using it, what people refer as socio-pragmatic or usage-based theory of language acquisition. Chomsky really hates Tomasello, and that feeling is mutual.
I really like Tomasello because he is quite emphatic when it comes to hating Chomsky and he is always finding new ways to disprove Chomsky's arguments.


If you go for the career-related website, you have to:

- provide the link
- describe the website (sections, features,etc)
- say how often you visit the site
- explain why you like the site.


If you go for the famous person in your field, you have to:
-Who she/he is. (short biography)
-What she/he has done. (examples of their work)
-Why you like her/him.
-Include his/her image

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