language

Who decides what's in the dictionary?

3 strategies for effectively talking about climate change

Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak?

Language around gender and identity evolves (and always has)

"Jabberwocky": One of literature's best bits of nonsense

Evolution's great mystery: Language

How do our brains process speech?

The race to decode a mysterious language

How to win an argument (at the US Supreme Court, or anywhere)

What do all languages have in common?

Can we learn to talk to sperm whales?

New ways to understand life in a pandemic

An honest history of an ancient and "nasty" word

Who counts as a speaker of a language?

The secret messages of Viking runestones

The giant leaps in language technology -- and who's left behind

The language of being human

Infinity according to Jorge Luis Borges

How to save a language from extinction

"Accents"

What reading slowly taught me about writing

What "Machiavellian" really means

Why language is humanity's greatest invention

A history of Indigenous languages -- and how to revitalize them

The secrets of learning a new language

The history of human emotions

Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care

How language shapes the way we think

Las palabras de la discriminación

How I'm using LEGO to teach Arabic

Poetry, music and identity

How to read a dog's body language

A young poet tells the story of Darfur

Don't fear superintelligent AI

How movie subtitles can improve literacy

How to use rhetoric to get what you want