Facial expressions evolved as fast, universal emotional signals, interpreted more reliably than wordless vocalizations. Human ...

Ken Jennings, the “Jeopardy!” host, doesn’t think trivia is trivial. In this episode, he makes the case that shows like “Jeopardy!” aren’t just games — they might be among the last cultural spaces ...

To meet this moment, we need a new definition—one that names the unique rituals, exclusions, and moral performances that ...

How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language has been abridged for online publication. The book is out on July ...

The study explored the challenges to the undertaking and growth of security and strategic studies (SSS) in Africa. This was against the observed increased establishment of SSS courses in both African ...

IndieWire looks at recent films from Jafar Panahi, Nader Saei-Var, and more to consider how hijab is represented in Iranian ...

ChatGPT and other AI tools are having a massive effect in schools, commerce, science, medicine and, increasingly, in the ...

In the study, "An empirically-based scenario for the evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years," published in PLOS One, researchers compiled a cross ...

For Elsa Caín-Yuqilema of Ecuador, language expresses one’s culture and when a language is lost, its culture will also vanish, and with it, its people. To do her part in making sure that doesn’t ...

Interview with Chinese diaspora writer Zhang Lijia about writing about China in a foreign language and identity issues in a global literary space.