Can A.I. Help Us Understand Babies?
November 23, 2025
Artificial intelligence is everywhere in our day-to-day lives and our interactions with the world. And…
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The Mysterious Timelessness of Math
January 21, 2024
Math is a really useful subject—at least, that’s what your parents and teachers told you.…
Frege and the Language of Reason
January 14, 2024
At the end of the 19th Century, the German philosopher Gottlob Frege invented a new…
Microaggressions
November 26, 2023
Microaggressions are small comments or questions that may be insulting or hurtful to another person…
Referring to the World: Ken’s Final Work
October 29, 2023
On December 2, 2019, Ken Taylor announced that he finally had “an almost complete draft”…
The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle
October 15, 2023
The Vienna Circle was a group of early twentieth-century philosophers, mathematicians, logicians, and scientists, best…
Death of the Sentence
August 21, 2022
A child’s first sentence is a pivotal moment in her development when she is recognized…
Trolling, Bullying, and Flame Wars: Humility and Online Discourse
January 24, 2021
Open up any online comments section and you’ll find them: internet trolls, from the mildly…
Poetry as a Way of Knowing
April 19, 2020
What is poetry? Mere word play? A pretty, or at any rate striking, way of…
Can Speech Kill?
March 22, 2020
Free speech is one of the core tenets of our democracy. We’re inclined to think…
Freedom of Speech on Campus
August 25, 2019
In the last few years, conservatives and liberals alike have accused activists on college campuses…
More Than Pun and Games
April 7, 2019
Puns have been called both the highest and lowest form of humor. There is something…
Why Propaganda Matters
February 4, 2018
Governments and other political institutions employ propaganda to sway public opinion, instill ideas, and exert…
Truth and Other Fictions
December 27, 2015
Most of us think we know the truth when we see it. But what exactly…
How Words Work: From Noise to Meaning
May 17, 2015
Humans have an amazing capacity to communicate. By uttering sounds we are able to convey…
Forbidden Words
March 15, 2015
Some words, like n****r, ch*nk, and c*nt, are so forbidden that we won’t even spell…
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