If Albert Camus were alive today, he might have found in Nigeria’s internet culture a perfect theatre for his notion of the absurd, a boundless digital stage where suffering, humour, and distraction ...

Federal money helps New York hum. A Mayor Mamdani who spends his days bashing President Trump and pledging to oppose ICE may ...

Language is a fundamental aspect of human identity and culture, yet many tongues remain undocumented and at risk of extinction. Linguist Nicholas Evans has dedicated his life to unraveling the ...

After three years of failure, Manipur’s politicians seem to have gone out of their wits to save their own backs. The war-fatigued and reconciliation-hungry people still see no leader who can guide ...

Linguist, activist and social critic Noam Chomsky is hospitalized in his wife’s native country of Brazil recovering from a massive stroke he had a year ago, she confirmed Tuesday. Valeria Chomsky said ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman have warned on social media in recent weeks of the “Dead Internet Theory,” an idea that the internet is dominated by bot activity ...

Put on your tinfoil hats: New research finds that belief in conspiracy theories might be more common in the U.S. than you might think. "A fair number of people heard about and believe these ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...

Although the idea started small, folks on social media helped spread the theory about the timeline of events. The coincidences piled up quickly, fueling arguments that the brand’s flavors were linked ...

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Look what you made her do. Taylor Swift shut down the “shockingly offensive” fan theory that she will stop making music after “The Life of a Showgirl” because she is marrying Travis Kelce. During a ...