New language, new cultures (Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal)
Learning new languages leads to the blending of new cultures.
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08, 2017
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08, 2017
Hearing what is simple amid the technological noise
The simple remains to be heard in a time of technology.
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08, 2017
The “Two Cultures” revisited (Roger Kimball, The New Criterion)
Reviewing the "two cultures" debate in light of modern science.
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08, 2017
The Shipwreck of the Humanities
Do the humanities prevent or foster our cultural shipwreck?
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08, 2017
The bilingual brain (Gaia Vince, BBC Future)
A bilingual mind has different strengths and abilities.
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07, 2017
Finding the words in a sea of literature
Samuel Johnson charts the history of language to create a monumental work.
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07, 2017
Coding over languages (Andy Kessler, Wall Street Journal)
Coding is a language as universal as English.
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06, 2017
Latin lives, as much as we do (and perhaps more)
The life of Latin is part and parcel of our own.
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05, 2017
The art and science of bird song and human speech (David Robson, BBC Future)
How bird song offers insights into the origins of language.
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05, 2017
Lost language, lost voices, lost worlds
When language is lost, we are also diminished.