If you enjoyed sipping a word like brandy with Doris Lessing, then get comfortable for a bumper pack of similes and metaphors courtesy of Ross Macdonald and his story collection The Archer Files (V…

A 400-year-old coded text found at the Vatican Library is among the historic documents and messages that are being cracked with the help of artificial intelligence.

Like the universe, language is in a constant state of change and evolution. That's how old and dying languages fuse into new languages. Language evolves whether we like it or not. Also, a certain language

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A falsifiable hypothesis about the foundations of machine reasoning — and why the answer might be Basque Every major language model in production today learned English first. Not because anyone decided English was the right foundation for machine reasoning — but because English corpora are enormous,

In this episode of Private Life, Daniel Mendelsohn joins Jarrett Earnest to discuss his 2025 translation of Homer’s Odyssey and Christopher Nolan’s

“The whole field of AI alignment—ensuring that machine intelligence can peacefully coexist with humanity—grew out of the pervasive anxiety that we might

AI-powered translation tools are certainly impressive. But there is an important frontier for translation technology, one AI might never be able to breach: the poem.

Once upon a time, a frontend ticket landed on my queue which was not properly mine, but the only other Arabic reader on the team was on leave. It went roughly as follows; a block of mixed-content Arabic prose on the …

If you’re competing at the National Spelling Bee and you need to know about a word’s roots, Brian Sietsema, PhD ’89, is your guy. The MIT-trained linguist also happens to be a Greek Orthodox priest.

Many migrant parents are hesitant to pass their language accent onto their children. They fear this may lead them to experience discrimination. But speaking two languages has many advantages.

I don't know that any word is truly untranslatable, but I'd say the more words it takes to explain the meanings of a foreign word is a measure of translatability. So how about the common Indonesian word biji. It is usually translated as "seeds", but actually it means "a collection of things...

Documents and other collections of text can be goldmines for data journalism — if you know how to approach them as data. Here are some techniques and inspiration for your next data project. From st…

Theatre director and writer Robert Icke reveals his formative creative influences.

in rain. A blur, like another language isa mix of colorthat runs and spills. I do not look downbut across into tops of giant treeswhere birds come

From Kurdish to Kichwa, six Minnesotans work to preserve the languages that keep them connected to their home, heritage and history.