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Entertainment

Communicating Through Art in a Post-Language Era

11.19.16

By Lars Bengston
Identity

A Dialect Coach Attempts to Unpack What’s Going on with Lindsay Lohan’s Voice

11.03.16

By Steven Blum
Tech

This Sperm Whale Relocation Is Further Evidence They Have a ‘Culture’

10.18.16

By Kate Lunau
A Professor Says Australians Talk the Way They Do Because Early Aussie Settlers Were Drunk

10.28.15

By Michael Cuby
Entertainment

The Quest to Build Australia’s First Indigenous Language Wikipedia

06.05.15

By Alan Weedon

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Life

Conspiracy Theorists Are Already Trying (And Failing) to Discredit the Artemis II Mission

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Music

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The collaborative album is coming April 17.

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By Nick Stockton
You will know a "dinergoth" by personal adornment—colorfully dyed hair, cat ears, arm tattoos, septum piercing—but does this new character really exist?

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What ‘Dinergoth’ Gets Wrong About Class in 21st-Century America

Robert Mariani’s viral “dinergoth” essay, about a supposed new type of American weirdo, is blinkered and self-serving.

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By Hugo Hansen