The middle finger was in the news this week as M.I.A. flipped the bird during a US Super Bowl halftime performance.
What is it about this gesture that makes it obscene? How long has it been around? And what else …
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A team of scientists has developed a technique for turning brain activity into words.
Soon, it may be possible to reconstruct conversations — in effect, to read minds. How does it work? Do we even think in words?
Linguist Daniel …
Apple’s Siri software has put automatic speech recognition back in the news.
We finish our two-part discussion with stupid Siri tricks, and some ways that Siri has become embroiled in controversy. And why is Siri female?
Linguist Daniel Midgley will …
Speech recognition has come a long way.
With the emergence of Siri on the iPhone, good speech recognition is within the reach of many of us. How does it work? Why is automatic speech recognition so difficult? And what tricks …
The year 2011 brought many words and phrases to prominence.
Occupy captured a lot of attention, but there are so many more.
Linguist Daniel Midgley brings the words that captured the essence of our year on this episode of Talk …
So you know the lyrics to Christmas carols? They may not be what you think.
Some of them have evolved over time, and how they’ve changed can tell us about language long ago.
Linguist Daniel Midgley gets festive on this …
Do you ever have a hard time understanding lyrics? For some songs, it could be because the language is imaginary.
Inspired by the release of what could be the final Sigur Ros album, Linguist Daniel Midgley looks at music in …
SlutWalk is hitting Perth this week to raise awareness of the tendency to blame the victims of sexual assault.
And the word slut is making even some participants uncomfortable. What’s behind the term? Where does it come from, and can …
An economist has determined that the difference in rates of savings between countries can be put down to language.
Does having a future tense make you see the future differently? Just how important is language to perception?
Linguist Daniel Midgley…
Radioactive waste takes a long time to decay.
In the meantime, you have to warn people to stay away from it. But how do you make a warning sign that will still be understandable to people 10,000 years in the …
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