Researchers from the SETI Institute report what may have been the first conversation with whales in the humpbacks' own language. The SETI scientists have been exploring interspecies communication to learn something about how we may someday interact w...
Sam Altman? Yawn. Bill Gates? Meh. Our greatest AI visionary is ... an English professor in Illinois.
The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations. Techniques For Effective Business Communications. That was the headline in a Wall Street Journal article back in 2012. The piece made the point that the word “innovation” (...
I always thought the word dandelion was based on dandy lions. Like the flowers were little lions, dressed in green finery. But while reading this article about the way that South Miami has developed its own dialect, I read about the origins of the wo...
One of the challenges of starting a new job is learning all the lingo, acronyms, and terminology specific to the workplace, and the industry as a whole. Read more...
Around 72km southwest of Mexico City, a volcano is rumbling and spewing ash and smoke, leading authorities to prepare for evacuations should it erupt in earnest. The volcano is named Popocatépetl, which means "smoking mountain" in the Nahuatl langua...
A study was published in Nature examining communication among chimpanzees. It found that chimps use "words," and can combine the words into "syntactic-like structures," the beginnings of phrases / sentences. "Chimpanzees produce 'alarm-huus' whe...