Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

Kingsley Amis wrote a deep dive story in Food & Wine about the history of gin, how to drink gin, why writers love gin, and why gin may have once been slightly poisonous. Kingsley Amis is one of the ...

Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

The Cold War History Research Center at Corvinus University of Budapest is now accepting proposals for its 15th Annual International Student Conference to be held on May 27–28, 2025.

Therefore, every struggle for our languages is ultimately a struggle for our thinking, and each national language is eminently worthy and not just a mere tool. If we further dive into the history of ...

More than 8,000 of the world’s most-cited scientists have at least one retraction, according to a database that links retractions to top-cited papers 1. Retracted papers had a higher number of ...

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Virginia Woolf’s classic Mrs Dalloway was revolutionary for its challenge to the novel form and its representation of time.

Language is continuously evolving ... Use of the term 'BAME' has been increasingly criticised. In Black History Month, our Ethnic Minority Lawyers Division recorded a podcast on ‘Is BAME problematic?’ ...

Students across the nation are busy preparing speeches and essays that reflect the significance of this ... Indian classrooms are also buzzing with discussions about India’s rich history, the ...

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