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Questions from our Mailbag: A whale is an animal. Whales are animals. What's the difference? Is the QWERTY keyboard designed to slow you down? Is English a creole? Why does a word keep popping up after you've encountered it for the first time?
What is home? Is it a physical space, a set of relationships, or a state of mind? SAPIENS host Esteban Gómez follows Amy Starecheski, a researcher who has studied how squatters went legit and secured homeownership in New York City, as she seeks
Talking with cognitive scientist Benjamin Bergen about the science of swearing. News: California says bots must self-disclose. British drivers swear 41 times every 100 miles. Bookmarks: The film 'I Dream in Another Language'. A new font claims
Researchers routinely use tweets, comments, and social media posts as language data. It's public data, but does that mean it's okay to use? We talk to researchers Hannah Rashkin and Maarten Sap about the ethical ins and outs. News: Children can
Humans may have been in North America much earlier than previously thought. Here’s the evidence: chipped rocks, crushed mastodon bones, and reliable dates showing the remains are 130,000 years old. Is that enough to rewrite the history? SAPIENS
What cool things about other languages could we bring to English? Our listeners share their ideas. News: Another multilingual cross-species translator that's short on details. And the FOXP2 gene (often dubbed the "language gene") shows no evolu
On this International Day of Signed Languages, an interview with researcher Ulrike Zeshan. Auslan interpreter Christy Filipich keeps us on track and shares her views. News: Which takes the effort, starting to speak one language, or repressing t
It’s the end of the world as we know it. How do you feel? SAPIENS co-host Jen Shannon follows the trail of some contemporary preppers with the help of anthropologist Chad Huddleston. Then she dives into history with Tim Kohler, an archaeologist
Turning down the bias in big data with researchers Rob Speer and Kai-Wei Chang. News: Typos can defeat a hate-speech detector. New segment: Bookmarks. Kylie tells us about Vox by Christina Dalcher. Words of the Week: lodestar, gender whisperer,
Kinship terms. How do languages handle the vocabulary of family relations? What's a third cousin, and what's 'removed'? In the News: Two Philadelphia students have compiled a glossary of slang for their teachers. Words of the Week: man-child, a
Can robots care? And why should we care if they do? SAPIENS host Jen Shannon meets Pepper the robot, and host Chip Colwell goes on a quest to find out how the robotics industry is (re)shaping intimacy in Japan. He speaks with anthropologists Je
An interview with Professor Emily Bender of the University of Washington, about 100 things you always wanted to know about semantics and pragmatics. In the News: Mormons don't want you to call them Mormons anymore. Plus a quiz based on the CLIC
Questions from our listeners: Zhooshing Polari. What does it mean to have "the boits"? Of hills and mountains. Why is it Portuguese and not Brazilian? How can you spot an accent? Do our brains lump additional languages together? Revisiting Engl
What does your DNA have to do with who you are? On a journey for answers, SAPIENS hosts Chip Colwell, Jen Shannon, and Esteban Gómez take consumer DNA tests and confront murky, interconnected issues of identity and heredity. Their guides includ
We revisit the idea that language shapes behaviour with two expert linguists. Is the Sapir Whorf Hypothesis coming in from the cold? In the News: a young woman from New Zealand challenges stereotypes on signage, and the Cha’palaa language of Ec
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