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crybaby : the myth of the maternal instinct and what infant distress tells us  i’ve been waiting twenty years for this meeting : Trump issue...

out damn spot : the attempted erasure of a Banksy mural shows one cannot scrub away complicity in genocide   free return trajectory : actin...

Although it is justified to dismiss artificial intelligence and large language models as exalted extensions of auto-correct and predictiv...

Regularly published by the Vatican, the title register refers to a list of neologisms invented for modern words and phrases so seminarian...

Although pidgin dialects (widely believed to be a distortion of the English word for business rather than the folk etymology from a messen...

Founded by veteran CBC journalist and presenter Clyde Gilmour in the 1940s, the Society for the Verification and Enjoyment of Fascinati...

tariff tango : Canada’s claymation response to Trump’s thirty-five percent levy on exports and other affronts  modulator-demodulator : a tri...

levi strauss waltz : fledging Jefferson Airplane’s commercials for blue jeans  moral high-ground : despite what justice we might entrust to ...

practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking : the Art Room Plant presents multiple vignettes on author PL Tra...

eight limes, no more : a list is a map, a compass, a prayer—via MetaFilter   ключевская сопка : volcanic eruption in Russia’s far east set...

Delving the depths of Wikipedia , we learn that in Dutch, with a much more contemporary and relatable mishearing than the seventeenth centu...

Language Log directs our attention to the obituary and encomium of the recently departed satirist noted for his nimble lyrics and insuff...

Convinced that this subject was one that we had visited before for its relation to emoticons, emoji and ASCII art and surprised to find t...

; ) : the correct use of the semicolon— see also   if you try to humanise the place, you will lose your mind : a journalist reflects on ...

Via Waxy , we found this project from by Josh Sucher to create a cinematic lexicon of infrequent words from a data-set of prolix, dialo...

Via Waxy , we found this meta-analysis from the Pudding of gendered characters in children’s literature to be quite engrossing and seeing t...

willis wonderland : an appreciation of an influential designer that defined the aesthetic of the 80s    husband-and-wife slices : the thorn...

Having always been fascinated by the depth and breadth of the German language and the seeming disconnect in scientific terminology, as...

Departing from Chion by Orléans, we made it to our primary destination in Morbihan (Breton for small see) and one of the few departments th...

hero’s journey : researchers conducting a meta survey of fictional narratives find a consistent language patterns for compelling plots— se...