Boiling with rage. A warm embrace. A cool time in a hot town.
How do we think about heat and cold, and how does this work its way into language? And does this have anything to do with what the …
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It’s Word of the Year season again, and Daniel was repping Talk the Talk at the year’s biggest vote.
But controversy surrounds the WotY. Is it too white, too old, and too male? How can this be helped?
Daniel regales …
Michael Stevens is the creator of Vsauce, a YouTube channel originally focusing on games and moved to science education – a series that now has over 18 million subscribers and 1.2 billion views after 10 years. His videos blend …
This week, we’re looking back at the year that was.
What were our favourite shows? What does it mean if someone ‘deserves a pineapple’? And what will be the Word of the Week of the Year?
Daniel and Kylie are …
The sign language glove is an idea whose time has come! Or has it?
Could this tech tool be helpful for Deaf people? Or it is just so much hand-waving? Not everyone in the world of singed language is wild about …
Just how linguistic is neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP?
Some people think it can help you win friends and influence people. And a lot of people are making a lot of money from it. But what about its language claims?
Daniel…
Just how feasible is a pet translator?
A report from a futurologist is claiming that we’re only ten years away from having deep and meaningfuls with our puppers and kittehs. But there might be some technical hurdles — including the …
Are you stuck for what to go as for Halloween? AI to the rescue!
A computer scientist is using neural networks to invent Halloween costumes. Do you think you could pull off Punk Tree? Or perhaps Lady Garbage is more …
Sometimes it can be hard to tell the real news from the fake news.
But language researchers are building tools that can detect deception online. And they’re working on detecting satire. Can their system spot the fakes better than you …
Time to check in on Shakespeare.
Away from the glare of the footlights, the Play On! project is underway to translate all the Bard’s works into Present-Day English. How is it progressing? What’s staying, and what’s going?
We’re talking to …
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