Education
Explore your favorite subject—whether you’re a history buff, bookworm, nature lover, science geek, or techie—through a unique language lens.
Speak of the Devil! 15 Infernal Names for The Evil One
The Rosetta Stone: Unlocking Ancient Egypt
The Evolution of Skyscrapers
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What if a password didn’t contain words?
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Seventh Heaven: Decoding the days of the week
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Lexical Investigations: Desiderata
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Lexical Investigations: Awkward
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Lexical Investigations: Labyrinth
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Lexical Investigations: Balaclava
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Encoding Shakespeare into DNA
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How Do You Say “Basketball” In Latin?
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Lexical Investigations: Holistic
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Are Scrabble Tile Values In Need Of An Overhaul?
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Lexical Investigations: Art
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Why Is The Football Team Called The 49ers?
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Lexical Investigations: Appendix
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Was Saussure wrong?
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Could an animal speak? Not just bark or meow, but actually speak.
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Do babies speak with an accent?
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How did this new species of monkey get its name, and what does it mean?
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When Dictionaries Attack: How Hackers Use Dictionaries to Guess Passwords
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Can baboons read? Kind of.
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Does the smell of bacon affect the meaning of a word?
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Are dolphins able to say hello?
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Would you learn a new language if it would help your health?
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Why Did Facebook Trademark The Word “Book”? Is That Legal?
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Why Did China’s Internet Censors Flag The Word Salt?
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Where is the Middle East? The Near East? The Far East?
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Can computers understand online conversations?
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Where will Los Angeles be in 50 million years? Beijing?
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What Do You Do With A Swearing Toddler?
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A Word Problem in Tonight’s Meteor Shower
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What parts of the brain distinguish words from sentences?
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How do computers help decode inscrutable ciphers?
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How does the brain compute language? Will it turn us into cyborgs?
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What Are CAPTCHAs?
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When did the New York Times first use an emoticon?
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Can how a baby cries predict their future language skills?
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Why are zero and the letter “O” both circles? The answer involves both science and mysticism
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What does “Atlantis” mean? And why is the Space Shuttle Atlantis named after something underwater?
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Why Is The Secretive Military Base called “Area 51”?
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Will Handwriting Survive in the Digital Era?
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Did You Know There Is A Law That Bans The Use Of Confusing Words And Sentences In Government Documents
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Words To Remember Every 13 Years
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A Baby Named “Like” And The History Of Names (Anthroponymy)
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A lost, legendary dictionary is rediscovered. Where was it found, and what language is it for?
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Typewriters Were Originally Created To Help The Blind
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Do bilingual babies actually have more brain power?
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What Is Hypocatastasis?
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How Exactly Does Tourette’s Syndrome Affect Language?
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Weasel Words And Other Ways We Avoid Telling The Truth