Do your genes define who you are?
The sound of genetics often has a fatalistic ring to it. But is that true?
InScience: documentary Hacking Hate sheds light on the influence of hate speech on social media
Why do people engage in hate speech online? TalkLing attended a screening of the documentary
What genes make our brains look like our grandpas?
Humans share almost all of their genes with chimpanzees. But humans have bigger and more
New COVID-19-related words as social antibodies keeping our brain busy.
When facing unexpected world changes, as in the case of the current pandemic, the language system adapts to the challenge to express a new reality. How? By forging new words! Let’s find out how this happens by looking at one of the most powerful engines we can count on: our brain.
Group size affects language change: an interview with Dr. Limor Raviv
Dr. Limor Raviv was a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. She defended her thesis entitled ‘Language and society: How social pressures shape grammatical structure’ on May 7 2020.