Tag: Words
When dogs bark, are they using words to communicate?
Clive Wynne, Arizona State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages....
Fox News viewers write about ‘BLM’ the same way CNN viewers...
Mark Kamlet, Carnegie Mellon University; Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Carnegie Mellon University, and Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University
It’s no secret that U.S. politics has become highly...
Why do kids call their parents ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’?
Bethany Van Vleet, Arizona State University and Denise Bodman, Arizona State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have...
Why do Americans say ‘bay-zle’ and the English say ‘baa-zle’?
Christine Mallinson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an...
Curious Kids: Why do we say ‘OK’?
Elly van Gelderen, Arizona State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
A Danish word the world needs to combat stress: Pyt
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Dickinson College
Danes are some of the happiest people in the world, and they also happen to have a lot of cool words...
As marijuana goes mainstream, what’s happening to the way we talk...
Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville
For decades, the marijuana industry operated underground, outside the confines of the law.
But even though at the federal level, possession...
A history of loneliness
Amelia S. Worsley, Amherst College
Is loneliness our modern malaise?
Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says the most common pathology he saw during his years...