There are currently ∼7,000 different living human languages. The peak of language diversity may have been ∼10,000 years ago when up to 20,000 different languages might have been spoken. Languages ...

Writing didn't begin as language, it began as pictures of the world, until someone realized that sounds could be detached from meaning entirely. This video traces the precise conceptual leaps that ...

A powerful way to relinquish conscious control and open communication with the subconscious is through experiences that make ...

Explore famous people born in the 1890s whose lives stretched across wars, revolutions, mass media, and rapid technology.

As an artist rather than a politician or a dissident, he does not want to employ the languages of pop art, propaganda or ...

Biologist Michael Levin has spent his life trying to prove that minds show up in places we’d never think to look.

An international study has found that thousands of bird species build their songs using just eight fundamental acoustic ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium gives us a spectacular insight into the vast universe he has created. There’s so much history before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, much of it revolving around the ...

This is the eighth in an ongoing series of features highlighting authors and new books published by Torrey House Press in ...

The actual pump, the one that was standing in the yard of Ivy Green on April 5, 1887, when Anne Sullivan held Helen Keller’s ...

Right now at London’s Tate Modern, there is a single room in which select works from late University of Iowa alumna Ana Mendieta are displayed on a wall directly opposite the multi-paneled painting, ...