In the new light-footed dark sci-fi comedy Mickey 17, people are reprinted from a tissue printer, memories are uploaded from a back-up, and humans can communicate with other non-terrestrial species. TalkLing attended the screening of the latest endeavor of Parasite’s director Bong Joon Ho at the 10th anniversary of the InScience Film Festival. What is the science behind the movie? How plausible are these technological developments? And what does it tell us about death? Warning: this review contains spoilers.

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These days new pronouns are gaining recognition in many languages. Some are old pronouns being used in new ways, like “they” in English or “die” in Dutch. Others are totally new, like “iel” in French. But how do new pronouns “happen” and what are their effects? To answer these questions, we turn to Swedish, a language that gained an official new pronoun over a decade ago. Let’s unpack what Swedes were thinking when they added the little word “hen” to their vocabulary and see where they’re at now.

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What was the main question in your dissertation? The main question of my dissertation was

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Why are so many people these days talking about pronouns? What do they have to do with gender? How do you know what the correct pronouns are for something or someone? Let’s unpack what pronouns are and how their gender gets tricky.

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Last year Laura Giglio defended her thesis ‘Speaking in the Brain: How the brain produces and understands language’. Luckily she was happy to answer some questions about it.

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