Hello and welcome to the 87th edition of the Weekly Vine. In this week’s edition, we track the brief history of memes, decode ...

We wanted to add an epilogue to a local controversy this week wherein the effort to reclaim history by way of good times and ...

Quebec lawmakers demanded that Michael Rousseau step down after he spoke about the LaGuardia runway accident in English, not ...

If you haven’t seen the 50-minute conversation between actor Eric Dane and screenwriter/producer Brad Falchuk called “Famous Last Words” on Netflix, I recommend that you wrap yourself in a snug ...

Unlike PostScript, Page is intended for general scripting, like Python or Lua. A Unix system or similar (compiling on Windows is not currently supported) Git, which should be on your system already ...

Language learning is often a daunting prospect. Many of us wish we had learned a language to a higher level at school. But even though adults of all ages can do well in acquiring a new language, fear ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

Martin Thomas’s article against metabolism (Solidarity 753) is not a postscript to my critique of Monthly Review published in the previous paper, because I resoundingly reject almost everything he ...

Paul Hampton’s thorough survey (Solidarity 752; bit.ly/mr-ph) of the long-running US left magazine Monthly Review, of which John Bellamy Foster has been the main editor since 2000, is very useful as a ...

Thank you for your work on the development and maintenance. It might be worth considering adding PDF-to-PS(PostScript)/EPS(Encapsulated PostScript) conversion ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...