John Searle's famous "Chinese Room" thought experiment poses a timeless challenge to the idea of a truly thinking machine. By…
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Have you ever felt a longing for a place you've never been, or the bittersweetness of a fleeting moment you…
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Why do we count in tens? While it seems natural, many cultures from the Mayans to the Basques developed sophisticated…
What if you could see your own voice? Spectrograms, or "voiceprints," are powerful tools that turn the fleeting sounds of…
Explore one of history's most radical linguistic reforms: Turkey's 1928 Alphabet Revolution. At the direction of Atatürk, the nation abandoned…
What happens when unrelated languages live side-by-side for centuries? In the Balkans, languages as different as Albanian, Greek, and Romanian…
Long before English vowels did their famous shuffle, a far more ancient and dramatic event rocked its linguistic family tree.…
Ever wonder why William becomes Bill, but not Willam? Or how a Russian Aleksandr affectionately becomes Sashenka? Nicknames follow a…
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