Three new books apply an economist’s lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature ...

Ernesto Portillo Jr. Oct 22, 2016 Oct 22, 2016 Updated Oct 19, 2022 In O’odham the word for goat is siwat and ce:kol is squirrel. The word for brain is ‘uag. Wanna know the O’odham word for pencil? It ...

This very special live recording of World Book Club in Paris features celebrated French novelist Laurent Binet in ...

Move over Spotify Wrapped: Boston Public Library unveiled its year-end wrap-up lists on Monday morning, including the top 10 checked out books of 2025. In addition to looking back at the year’s top ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...

For something that happens mostly alone and in silence, reading can be surprisingly intimate. Our favorite books reveal our interests, inspire the way we think, and offer storylines and fantasies we ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

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"Algospeak" by Albany native Adam Aleksic. Before he was breaking down internet language for millions of TikTok users, Adam Aleksic was just a kid growing up in Albany, fascinated by words and their ...