What Makes Language Human?

What Makes Language Human?

Caleb Everett on Syntax and Recursion

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First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

Loren Grush on the Media Circus Surrounding America's First Women Astronauts

By Loren Grush | September 14, 2023

Why Human Writing Is Worth Defending In the Age of ChatGPT

Why Human Writing Is Worth Defending In the Age of ChatGPT

Naomi S. Baron on the Detrimental Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Literacy and Cognition

By Naomi S. Baron | September 12, 2023

The Geology of Misery: What Philip Larkin and Ted Lasso (and Science) Tell Us About Trauma

The Geology of Misery: What Philip Larkin and Ted Lasso (and Science) Tell Us About Trauma

On Breaking the Cycle of Individual and Collective Dehumanization

By Catherine Buni | September 11, 2023

How Complex Math and Human Innovation Created the Calculator

How Complex Math and Human Innovation Created the Calculator

Keith Houston on the People, Technology, and Equations Behind a Modern Mathematical Convenience

By Keith Houston | August 31, 2023

How a Directionless Path Can Reveal Science's Most Closely-Guarded Secrets

How a Directionless Path Can Reveal Science's Most Closely-Guarded Secrets

Ben Stanger on the Messy, Meandering Business of Scientific Discovery

By Ben Stanger | August 22, 2023

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The Universe is an Unreliable Narrator: Mindy Mejia Litsplains Physics

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How the Bush Administration Hid the Dangers Posed by Climate Change

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David Lipsky on the Manipulation of Language Behind Climate Change Denialism

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When Predator Becomes Prey: Why Sharks Need Protection From Humans

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Greg Skomal and Ret Talbot on America's Cultural Obsession With the Great White Shark

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Do Octopuses Dream of Elusive Crabs?

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David Scheel on the Sleep Patterns of Cephalopods

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Who. That. It. How We Speak About and For Animals

Who. That. It. How We Speak About and For Animals

Keggie Carew Considers the Ways Language Informs Our Perceptions of the Natural World

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Why Are So Many Babies Born Via C-Section?

Why Are So Many Babies Born Via C-Section?

Allison Yarrow on the Under-Examined Assumption of Cesarean Birth

By Allison Yarrow | July 19, 2023

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