Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBy Hand
Episode 146
Send us Fan Mail
Carrie and Megan talk with Tim Brookes about his newest book, By Hand, about the importance of handwriting.
NBER report
Current Affairs…
9 months, 1 week ago
Trapped in Makaton
Episode 145
Send us Fan Mail
Carrie and Megan talk about Makaton, an artificial sign-based system, particularly Sara Novič's article about it.
Support the show
Cont…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Scary Words for a Scary World
Episode 144
Send us Fan Mail
Carrie and Megan talk about random words that are scary or scary-adjacent.
facsismeldritchghostvampireSupport the show
Contact us:
Threa…10 months, 4 weeks ago
Peven Stinker
Episode 143
Send us Fan Mail
We have a few things to say about Pinker.
Part of the War on ScienceThe Language InstinctPinker on Race RealismCo-authored paper on ov…11 months, 4 weeks ago
Algospeak
Episode 142
Send us Fan Mail
Carrie and Megan talk with Adam Aleksic about his new book, Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language.
Bromis…1 year, 1 month ago
A History of Like
Episode 141
Send us Fan Mail
Carrie and Megan talk with Megan C. Reynolds, Dwell magazine editor, about her book, Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and …
1 year, 2 months ago
Serving Language Ideologies
Send us Fan Mail
Carrie and Megan talk with Paulette van der Voet and Martina Terrazzano, PhD students at the University of Umea, about their class ca…
1 year, 3 months ago
Rare Tongues
Episode 140
Send us Fan Mail
We talk with Dr Lorna Gibb about her newest book, Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages.
Steven Pinker:
Harvard Derangem…1 year, 4 months ago
The AI Con
Episode 139
Send us Fan Mail
Carrie and Megan talk with Drs Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, and Alex Hanna, Director of…
1 year, 4 months ago
Enough is Enuf
Episode 138
Send us Fan Mail
Carrie and Megan talk with Gabe Henry about his new book, Enough is enuf: Our failed attempts to make English eezier to spell.
Puerto …1 year, 5 months ago