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Literature & Language

How can you change someone's mind? (hint: facts aren't always enough)

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Writing/Composition

How many verb tenses are there in English?

898,282 Views

Linguistics

Where do new words come from?

1,379,308 Views

Literature & Language

What makes a poem … a poem?

4,001,356 Views

Speaking

How to use rhetoric to get what you want

3,382,851 Views

Medical Conditions

Aphasia: The disorder that makes you lose your words

1,470,219 Views

Linguistics

One of the most difficult words to translate...

2,010,269 Views

Literature & Language

What makes something "Kafkaesque"?

13,259,307 Views

The Arts

How interpreters juggle two languages at once

1,709,058 Views

Literature & Language

The pleasure of poetic pattern

1,020,853 Views

Speaking

Are You A Good Listener?

1,637,314 Views

Science & Technology

The Turing test: Can a computer pass for a human?

1,712,618 Views

Linguistics

Does grammar matter?

2,484,389 Views

Literature & Language

How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it)

3,000,740 Views

Social Studies

Let's make history…by recording it

217,089 Views

Design, Engineering & Technology

How computers translate human language

425,394 Views

Literature & Language

What "Orwellian" really means

3,257,082 Views

Literature & Language

How misused modifiers can hurt your writing

545,208 Views

The Arts

A poetic experiment: Walt Whitman, interpreted by three animators

398,280 Views

Literature & Language

Buffalo buffalo buffalo: One-word sentences and how they work

911,265 Views

Literature & Language

When to use apostrophes

1,211,140 Views

Literature & Language

Where did English come from?

5,874,704 Views

The Arts

The battle of the Greek tragedies

689,582 Views

Performing Arts

Did Shakespeare write his plays?

1,025,699 Views