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Nautilus Magazine
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Nov 11, 2019
Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language
The confounding consistency of color categories
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Oct 10, 2019
Is the Chinese Language a Superstition Machine?
How ambiguity in language can create unique taboos
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Oct 7, 2019
Ingenious: Julie Sedivy
Why language both enraptures and deceives us
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Sep 16, 2019
The Youngest Code-Makers
We learn as kids that knowledge is power — secret knowledge even more so
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Sep 11, 2019
Cracking Avatar’s Language Codes
A fictional language makes the jump to reality
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Aug 28, 2019
The Secret Language of Tennis Champions
How identical twins Mike and Bob Bryan serve science
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Aug 20, 2019
Secret Military Test, Coming Soon to Your Spanish Class
A powerful, precise language aptitude test is…
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Jan 30, 2019
A Linguist Responds to Cormac McCarthy
If language began as a virus, here’s how it spread
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Dec 24, 2018
What Searchable Speech Will Do To You
Will recording every spoken word help or hurt us?
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Apr 28, 2019
20 Ways to See the Light
The meaning of light through history in science, religion, philosophy, and…
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