Last night on Colbert. All about PRONOUN TROUBLE (or mostly). youtu.be/eClNdXq3NWw?si… via YouTube

Proto; The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered | Book review | The TLS the-tls.com/languages-llng…

The saga of a #LANGUAGE family that has shaped the world Laura Spinney's ‘Proto’ is an exciting, accessible story of the birth and spread of Indo-European languages #Linguistics #History #Science #Culture #Sanskrit HarperCollins governancenow.com/news/regular-s…

Microorganisms, materials and movement inspire high-fashion dress designs. nature.com/immersive/d415…

The team, led by Professor Rüstem Aslan of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, has resumed full-scale excavations (...). Their focus this year is razor-sharp: the so-called “destruction layer” dating back to the Late Bronze Age – roughly 1200 BCE (...).

New ALILI alert! 🚨 Episode 37 is a trip into prehistory, as Laura Spinney, author of the super new book Proto, joins me to share her expertise and enthusiasm for the 'lost' language of Proto-Indo-European! Listen here: Acast:shows.acast.com/a-language-i-l… Spotify:open.spotify.com/episode/0xbQPe…

Great conversation yesterday with the very well-read Mitch Jeserich of KPFA Radio and California for his show Letters & Politics kpfa.org/episode/letter…

Coppola tried this to unearth new script-writing talent - see Zoetrope - all he got was regression to the mean. Should grant applicants judge competitors’ proposals? Unorthodox approach gets two real-world tests | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

.Riccardo Ginevra @andrewmbyrd ??

.Riccardo Ginevra ?

Go to the museum at Çorum - more than 180 kinds of bread or bakery product!

Can I just say, that Dr Danny Bate knows his stuff

Laura Spinney Thanks Laura Spinney! Interesting experiment – maybe Iosif Lazaridis is interested in our comparative reconstruction of how a speaker of PIE may have actually pronunced the Dragon Slaying Myth: youtube.com/watch?v=J1SXeS…

Delighted to see PROTO by Laura Spinney and SHATTERED LANDS by Sam Dalrymple included here! Prospect critics recommend books for the beach: 2025 prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/70487/…

Uralic languages illuminated #ancientdna shorturl.at/JCw4g

With the suave John Maytham in Cape Town m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhJA2_…

Where does language come from? think.kera.org/2025/07/22/whe…

Another great leap? deepmind.google/discover/blog/…

Love this. How to say 92 in different European languages. Note the outliers France and especially Denmark. With thanks to brilliantmaps.com and reddit. #linguistics

Talking inflection points in (pre)history with the insatiably curious Philipp Blom youtu.be/SfGd3EKaMMs