Digital Archiving, and What Would it Cost to Print an Always Up-to-date Version of Wikipedia
Is the easiest way to preserve digital materials printing them out? What if we’re talking about the constantly changing Wikipedia?
Design Matters: What Should the Future of Transportation Sound Like?
Designers have spent decades trying to reduce the sounds that cars make. Now with electric vehicles, they are being forced to add sounds to provide feedback to drivers and pedestrians. What should the future sound like?
Out of Office: Summer Vacation
We’re out of office until next week. But is anyone really out of office these days?
The World of Competitive Excel eSports
Think you’re pretty handy with Excel? Wait until you see the world of professional spreadsheet competitors.
The Genetic Drift of Baby Names
Why do some names fall out of fashion, and how is the study of names like the study of genetics?
How Do Dogs See the World?
What does the research tell us about how dogs see the world?
Why Are English Language Spellings So Weird?
Why are English spellings so inconsistent and weird?
Off for Memorial Day, Let Barbecue Season Begin!
We’re off for the Memorial Day weekend, some music to get your summer barbecue started.
A Cetacean Alphabet
A new paper uses AI to decipher sperm whale vocalizations.
Music Paralysis as We Age
When do we stop making the effort to find new music?
Jane Austen’s Free Indirect Speech
A short explanation of one way that Jane Austen changed literature.
Reading with Run DMC
On today’s episode, Run DMC pay a visit to Reading Rainbow.
The Evolution of Pronunciation
Which words do you mispronounce? Or rather, which words that you mispronounce today will eventually be “correct”?
Avoiding April Fools, No Post Today
No post today due to the Easter Holiday and our general disdain for April Fools Day on the internet.
The Stories Behind English Letters
If you’re reading this, odds are you know the 26 letters in the English alphabet. But do you know how they came to their current forms?