Hello and welcome to the 87th edition of the Weekly Vine. In this week’s edition, we track the brief history of memes, decode ...

We wanted to add an epilogue to a local controversy this week wherein the effort to reclaim history by way of good times and ...

Quebec lawmakers demanded that Michael Rousseau step down after he spoke about the LaGuardia runway accident in English, not ...

If you haven’t seen the 50-minute conversation between actor Eric Dane and screenwriter/producer Brad Falchuk called “Famous Last Words” on Netflix, I recommend that you wrap yourself in a snug ...

Unlike PostScript, Page is intended for general scripting, like Python or Lua. A Unix system or similar (compiling on Windows is not currently supported) Git, which should be on your system already ...

Language learning is often a daunting prospect. Many of us wish we had learned a language to a higher level at school. But even though adults of all ages can do well in acquiring a new language, fear ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

Martin Thomas’s article against metabolism (Solidarity 753) is not a postscript to my critique of Monthly Review published in the previous paper, because I resoundingly reject almost everything he ...

Marlee Matlin has won an Oscar, and she’s appeared in countless films and television shows. Yet she, too, has faced a common Deaf dilemma: how to claim equitable access to information, when one lives ...