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What the Bard can teach science about language and the limits of the human mind → Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense
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DNA evidence exonerated six convicted killers. So why do some of them recall the crime so clearly? → Remembering the Murder You Didn’t Commit :: See also, The Problem with Eyewitness Testimony.
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A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction: What to make of our new literature of radical pessimism.
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Did Bob Dylan Crib Some of His Nobel Prize Lecture from SparkNotes? Hilarious, if true.
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Jane Solomon’s Dictionary Playlist of songs related (sometimes tenuously) to language and linguistics. Can you think of more?
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This Guy Spent A Year Exploring The Subculture Of Competitive Punning
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A Postal Museum photo essay following a package in the 1960s. → Sorting the Past :: Pairs with The lost genius of the Post Office.
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Hysteria over hyphens :: pairs with A Linguist Says ‘Yes!’ To The Exclamation Point.
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Today in 1984, talk show radio host Alan Berg is gunned down in his driveway in Denver, Colorado. Berg’s loud, bitter and mostly liberal views angered and engaged radio listeners, though his style was tame by today’s standards.