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The marriage of metaphor and your mind.Coming to terms with Nothingness.The revealing science of word choice.Time-lapse video and how we document the world around us.The words of the future.Related...
View ArticleFrom Metaphor to Consciousness
Neuroscientists are examining metaphors and finding that they’re essential to language. Modern brain scanning has allowed scientists to look at brain activity as the brain employs metaphors from...
View ArticleThat Sounds About Right
The Internet loves correcting other people’s grammar. But you’re your grammar mistakes are often the result of how the brain functions rather than ignorance, cognitive scientists have learned. The...
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Klingon: Where intellectual property and language collide.One of us. One of us. One of us. One of us. One of us.Poverty is all in your head. Really.After this expose, they are going to need an even...
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More than Words
My mother talks and talks. Often our phone calls reach a point where I impatiently interrupt her, “Mommy, just tell me the short version!” Her stream of consciousness is torrential, and I have to avoid...
View ArticleCan Creativity Be Taught?
Is creativity something we are born with? Can it only be nurtured, or can it be taught? Scientist discuss this age-old question for PRI.Related Posts:Weekly GeekeryFrom Metaphor to ConsciousnessMore...
View ArticleGrey Matters
This is how it started: Falling into the spaces between words, between ideas, between sentences. An infinite elbowing out of time, and time and space between. Gaps upon gaps upon gaps upon gaps....
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Nabokov’s epilepsy, heart problems, and unpublished letters.A dictionary for the fleshy bits of brain that store our words.Ephemerality meets Instagram.The secret sauce behind NBC’s Olympics...
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Both Us and Not Us: A Conversation with Will Boast
In Will Boast’s third book (and first novel), Daphne, the titular narrator lives with a neurological condition that paralyzes her whenever she feels strong emotion. Set in San Francisco in 2011, as the...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: RememberYou
The pills are called RememberYou, and that’s what they do—help you remember who you are. That’s what the doctor says, after Eunha calls the number that Mark’s sister, Carly, gives her, after she drives...
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The Algorithm of Love
Placing one’s profile on an online dating site is best done slightly drunk. It isn’t that I wanted to get on a dating site. This is the most impulsive decision I have made in my life, besides staying...
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