Tag: Languages

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five Words From …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this installment, semifinalist in Esquire magazine’s Best Dressed Real Man in America contest and Stanford law professor Richard Thompson Ford presents in Dress Codes a history of the laws (and customs so strong they might […]

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five Words From …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this installment, Roland Allen’s The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper provides a wide-ranging history of how the humble notebook became an indispensable tool for thinking. affordance “Conventional models of perceptual psychology didn’t accurately […]

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five Words From …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this installment, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist explains Spotify’s influence on the modern music business, and how it’s reshaped the experience of both listening to […]

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this installment, we learn from botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Robin Wall Kimmerer the gifts and lessons of living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—whose voices she lifts […]

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this installment, we follow nature writer Miriam Darlington from her home in Devon, England, through the wilds of Scotland, Wales, the Lake District, and the countryside of Cornwall as she pursues a deeper understanding of […]

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this installment, Sy Montgomery recounts her poultry husbandry journey, showing us that the “chickenverse” is a deeper and more interesting place than we imagined. augury “The word ‘augury’ comes from the Greek word meaning ‘bird […]

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this book, Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, two of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023, explain how AI works (and why it often doesn’t), explore AI’s limits and risks, and outline where AI […]

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this book, Vogue culture writer Emma Specter writes about her struggles around diet culture, eating disorders, and learning self-acceptance doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Night Eating Syndrome “Night Eating Syndrome (NES) is classified […]

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this book, Deb Chachra, Professor of Engineering at Olin College of Engineering, helps us explore the hidden beauty and complexity of the infrastructure we take for granted, and outlines how we can transform and rebuild […]

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this book, Ingrid Robeyns, the Chair in Ethics of Institutions at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University, outlines the principle she calls limitarianism—the need to limit extreme wealth. stagflation The story that most economics professors […]