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'Texting Dr. Tagg': Woman Earns Ph.D. in SMS

Proving that you really can study anything you want in college, Dr. Caroline Tagg has received a Ph.D. for studying text messaging. The 33-year-old academic spent the last three-and-a-half years studying the use of language in texts at England's Birmingham University English department. For the purposes of her research, Tagg had 235 volunteers send her every text message they sent or received, ...