Is speed reading for real?
Old techniques and new apps promise to help you read at phenomenal speeds, but do they really help? How can you become a better reader?
Linguist Daniel Midgley goes cover to cover on this episode …
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Ben and I are taking a break, getting ready for the next round of language science, news, and interviews. So we’re in repeats for the next few weeks.
But I’m still talking to James Hall every Tuesday.
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How did language begin? What was it like long ago?
Did we come up with meaningful utterances first and then break them down, or did we build language from the words up? Did other pre-humans have language?
Researchers are working …
Will the Internet save minority languages, or kill them?
Many small languages lack an online presence, as only a handful of languages dominate the Web. On the other hand, we’ve never had so many tools to include other languages in …
Emotions are fleeting. But when they’re captured in language, we can study how they spread from person to person, and even through time.
What impact does the emotional language of others have on you? And how many emotions are there …
Humanity, we may have a problem.
Computers are getting good at imitating us. How good? Good enough to fool us into accepting their scientific papers and their robocalls. Might they have already passed the Turing Test? And what are bots …
Search engines help us find what we’re looking for. So when governments put pressure on search companies, the results can be sinister.
A cyber-monitoring group says Microsoft’s Bing is squelching politically sensitive topics. What are their responsibilities, and what can …
The Voynich Manuscript is 600 years old, written in a strange script, and it’s never been deciphered.
Is it a guide to the universe, a book of secrets, or is it just pages and pages of gibberish? Modern techniques are …
Language research is turning up some surprising things about how language and gender interact.
It appears that our brains process language differently with male or female speakers. But what about online text? Can you tell whether someone is male or …
Words change slowly over time, but we can see how they look mostly the same, even in different languages.
Now a team of researchers is claiming that some “ultraconservative words” have maintained their similarity across languages for 15,000 years. Is …
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