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Why Working-Class New Yorkers Drop Their “Rs”
William Labov took something as small as one letter and showed how a subtle detail of our language could tell who we are.Photograph by Everett Historical / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, professor Henry Higgins says: “You can spot an Irishman […]
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Game of Thrones and the Evolutionary Significance of Storytelling
Why do we hate narratives that go wrong?
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The Ancient Rites That Gave Birth to Religion
Sacred beliefs likely arose out of prehistoric bonding and rituals.
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What an Extinct Bird Re-Evolving Says About “Species”
How could the same species evolve more than once?Photograph by Janos Rautonen / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . You may have heard the news of what sounds like a resurrection story on the small island of Aldabra, off the coast of Madagascar. Around 136,000 years ago, the […]
