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Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages
Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages ...
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Like today’s large language models, 16th-century humanists had techniques to automate writing – to the detriment of novelty
Like today’s large language models, 16th-century humanists had techniques to automate writing – to the detriment of novelty ...
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Vikings on the Silk Roads
The Norse ravaged much of Europe for centuries. They were also cosmopolitan explorers who followed trade winds into the Far ...
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Do button-pushing dogs have something new to say about language?
Inspired by a TikTok trend, a cognitive scientist developed the largest citizen science study in animal communication ...
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A catchy tune explains the world’s ‘isms’ – according to your mum doing the laundry
The world’s isms – capitalism, socialism, fascism and so on – explored through the analogy of your mum doing the washing ...
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Ideas ‘of pure genius’ – how astronomers have measured the Universe across history
An awe-inspiring look at how scientific knowledge builds upon itself gradually – one ingenious measurement at a time ...
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When East met West in the images of an overlooked, original photographer
Peel back the visible and invisible layers of brilliance in one artist’s clever self-portraits juxtaposing East and West ...
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The cat that wouldn’t die
is an award-winning British science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the co-author with John Heilbron of Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement (2024) ...
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The ecstatic swoon
On 22 January 1817, Henri Beyle’s heart was beating fast. Not because he had braved the robber-infested road from Bologna, but because he was now approaching the city of Florence. Glimpsing ‘like some ...