We meet a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke, and retrace ...

In some ways, science writing is among journalism’s most pure forms. It involves taking a complex - sometimes very complex - subject that has implications for everyone, and explaining it in a way that ...

How close can words get you to the truth and feel and force of life? That's the question poking at our ribs this hour of Radiolab. We wonder how it is that the right words can have the wrong meanings, ...

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