From Dialectics to Dog Whistles-The Best Words! (S1E10)
According to Donald Trump, the best words come from--Donald Trump! What if he's right? What if his 4th grade vocabulary is actually changing...
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Season 1: Looking under the influence of language to determine the common drivers of thought and interaction
Episodes
10 episodesCan Words Be Divine? (S1E9)
Religious texts speak of wonder, miracles and the soul. But it gets better: do the words themselves have power? We talk with Matthew Stackho...
Fighting Words: America's Second Amendment (S1E8)
In June of 1971, US government agents shot an NRA member in his home. This event started a change in language and politics that exposed deep...
Does Love Translate? (S1E7)
Love: verb or noun? Concept or action? The answers to these questions sometimes elude us, and looking across cultures we find evidence that...
Massage of the Soul: What Drives Comedy? (S1E6)
Tokyo Comedians Aziz Vora, Evans Musoka Luseno, Hagar and others guide us on a journey to discover the universal joke. They help us understa...
Words Create Worlds (S1E5)
Bill Wood's stories have delighted audiences in America for almost 30 years. Basecode joins Bill on a journey to discover why and how we tel...
English Isn't Very English (S1E4)
The Germanic Language called English developed over 1,600 years mostly through the conquest of Britain by waves of European Invaders. This b...
You, I, Everything Else: The Language of AI (S1E3)
As Artificial Intelligence develops languages on-demand, what can we learn from human languages to predict how AI will evolve? We look at Ja...
Under the Influence of Language (S1E2)
When we look at how people convert thinking into language, a surprising result appears: not all cultures think in the same way. Deeper inves...
Blame Aristotle for Fake News (S1E1)
Almost 2,500 years ago, a greek professor defined the rules for establishing Truth. The logic he required for thinking placed ideas and reas...