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Franz Kafka’s Best Friend

Kafka’s late story about a philosopher dog, like most of his stories about animals, is really about our lost humanity.
Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically ...
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'Yule' Love These New Books About Words

Stuff your stockings this holiday season with these lively new books about language. Jess Zafarris reveals the delightful ...
Zohran Mamdani is poised to become the first former rapper to serve as mayor of New York City, but many others have translated talent on the mic into a job in government ...
A new study challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture, and ...
Shannon McCoole ran one of the world's largest dark web child abuse forums for around three years in the early 2010s. The ...
After 150 years of mystery, neuroscience has finally cracked the code on how language works in the brain—and the answer is surprisingly elegant.
Predator: Badlands' director Dan Trachtenberg and Yautja language creator Britton Watkins discuss creating an alien language ...
Understand the risks of encrypted AI traffic exposure and explore practical steps users and cloud providers can take to stay ...
Discover what Prince Edward's subtle gestures reveal in this insightful body language analysis. Learn how nonverbal cues can speak volumes about royal life and public appearances. Senate to vote ...
A few years ago, I began to lose faith in my normal trade, journalism, with its reliance on facts. Sophisticates argue ...
An illustration of scientist signing the word science The American Sign Language sign for ‘science’ is two closed fists with thumbs angled down, and each hand moves in small circles in opposite ...