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Julie Sedivy: How Language Shapes Us

Her new book, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love is an ode to the power of language to both shape us and be shaped by us. It’s informed by her own experience with languages: she spoke five before learning English as an immigrant to Canada as a child.

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  Alex Pentland: Shared Wisdom

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  Jelani Cobb: Journalism at a Crossroads

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  The MASH Gang: How a Television Show Changed Us

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  Michael J Fox: Looking Back with Attitude

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  Bill McKibben: Tomorrow Will be Sunny

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  Kate Marvel: Feeling For Our Planet

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  Justin Evans: Data Heroes

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  Melanie Kaplan: Travels With a Beagle

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  Erica Chenoweth: A Better Way to Protest?

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  Nicky Clayton: Why Crows Are “Feathered Apes”

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  Steven Pinker: When You Know That I Know That You Know…

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  Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 31 Trailer

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  Leanne Guy: A New Eye on Space

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  Michael Osterholm: Can We Stop The Big One?

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  Herman Pontzer: Diversity: Humanity’s Superpower

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  Stephen Hall: Snakes: Do they Deserve Our Dread?