Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain This week, researchers reported that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state during general anesthesia. An informatics and computing professor found that the Climate TRACE consortium has underestimated vehicle carbon emissions in cities by a staggering 70% . And archaeologists excavated and photoscanned a prehistoric man-made island located in a Scottish loch. Also this week: Linguists have uncovered a hidden bias in human language; a study revealed how psychedelics confer therapeutically beneficial insights; and researchers reported on the connection between mental health, interoception and the experience of time. Safety first Researchers have assumed since the 1950s that meaning in language is divided into three emotional dimensions according to a framework called VAD: valence, or positive vs. negative; arousal, or excited vs. calm; and dominance, or controlling vs. submissive.…