Noam Chomsky, a pivotal thinker, revolutionized linguistics with his generative grammar and universal grammar theories, transforming it into a cognitive science. His influential work also impacted ...

A decade after the razzia on the Ecuadorian embassy in London, we still inhabit the aftermath of the left’s abandonment of Julian Assange. Wikileaks was the global mainframe for publishing “leaks” by ...

In his landmark 1949 paper, Claude Shannon showed how simple statistical models called Markov chains could reproduce the structure of human language. By modeling how letters and words depend on one ...

Why does “bouba” sound round and “kiki” sound spiky? This intuition that ties certain sounds to shapes is oddly reliable all over the world. For at least a century scientists have considered this ...

Computer science, at its most fundamental, is all about inputs and outputs. Consider the simple case of multiplying two numbers on a pocket calculator. You punch in some inputs — the specific numbers ...

The overwhelming majority of the public figures caught within the blast radius of the January dump of the Epstein files have been hyper-elite figures at the center of power in American society. But ...

Noam Chomsky's reputation as one of the most influential left-wing thinkers of the 20th century is in crisis after it emerged that emails between the 97-year-old and the late s-- offender Jeffrey ...

I started getting press calls about Chomsky and Epstein yesterday, before I’d looked at the new revelations and saw just how deep the relationship was. (“Why is the press calling the press,” I said, ...

Many, if not most, have toyed with the idea of learning another language. Many students in America were required to study a second language in school, but I’d argue this is the reason most Americans ...

Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting words together into never-before-spoken or -written sentences," said ...