Why Are We Using Machines to Study Our Inner Lives?: Increasingly scientists are testing chatbots rather than humans in experiments

Sometimes, a phrase seems to leap off the page and lodge into your mind, crisp and shining like a precious jewel. Other times, you're reading something and it just won't stick, your eyes wandering awa

In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than a prank, the secret apartment became a deep...

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There should be a word for books that show up in your life when you need them. Books which obliterate fears or seemingly by magic connect some of the disparate dots of a lifetime. Dots that you maybe didn’t even realize existed, let alone had an awareness that they could use an alignment, call for a needle and thread. There’s so much fixing, medicine we don’t know we need, and Julie Sedivy’s Linguaphile: A Language of Love was all of this to me.

Julie Sedivy reviews Michael Erard’s “Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words.”

The publication of On Book Banning, could not have been more timely: Alberta’s UCP government had issued and then paused a ministerial order removing books containing sexual content from school librar...

Facilitator: Julie Sedivy Tickets: $15, Available HERE Sentences are the foundation of all writing, and mastering the sentence is essential to developing a strong writing voice. In this workshop, I […...

Julie Sedivy reviews Michael Erard’s “Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words.”

David Martin’s third book, Limited Verse, is a brilliant feat of imagination, mashing together poetry, dystopian sci-fi and literary theory.

A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”

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Her new book, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love is an ode to the power of language to both shape us and be shaped by us. It’s informed by her own experience with languages: she spoke five before le...

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Join psycholinguist Julie Sedivy in conversation with reading and language science expert Maryanne Wolf about Sedivy’s recent memoir, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love. Linguaphile traces Sedivy’s ...

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White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

Linguist and psychologist Julie Sedivy discusses how she developed her love of languages, how language imprints upon us in utero, and how language can bring our

Join psycholinguist Julie Sedivy in conversation with reading and language science expert Maryanne Wolf about Sedivy’s recent memoir, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love. Linguaphile traces Sedivy’s ...

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The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international and contemporary works of poetry and fict...