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Sep 22, 2021 9:00 AM
Meat vending machines are just the latest way the pandemic has reinvented eating
Sep 21, 2021 3:00 PM
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Jul 12, 2021
From Chicagoan to Phoenician, here’s what to call the residents of the biggest US cities
What did you call me?!
Feb 25, 2021
Like humans, naked mole-rats have regional accents
They speak the Queen’s English, so to speak.
Jan 22, 2021
Local languages are dying out and taking invaluable knowledge with them
Rare, rural vocabularies hold the keys to centuries-old questions about nature, human migration, and more.
Feb 2, 2020
If monkeys could speak, they’d probably be trolls
Asif Ghazanfar matches macaque behavior to discernible sounds.
Jan 13, 2020
The Sims’ language has surprisingly scientific origins
Robi Kauker helped improvise a nonsense vocabulary for the popular game. The process was ‘stupid hard.’
Jan 10, 2020
Why is it so hard for us to get peoples’ pronouns right?
Singular ‘they’ is becoming more of a vernacular mainstay—but there’s cultural resistance.
Nov 3, 2019
How you say “coffee” or “tea” depends on ancient trade routes
Are you more of a koffie or te person?
Jul 19, 2019
Did we mishear Neil Armstrong’s famous first words on the Moon?
A linguist looks into the missing 'a.'
Sep 28, 2018
Gmail now finishes your sentences, and the results are better than expected
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Sep 19, 2017
Siri has a peppy new voice. But that’s not the most important thing.
We spoke to vocal experts about the digital assistant’s new pipes.
