Skeptophilia

A little over a year ago, I decided to do something I've always wanted to do -- learn Japanese. I've had a fascination with Japan si...

Last September, I started learning Japanese through Duolingo. [Image licensed under the Creative Commons Grantuking from Cerrione, Italy, F...

About two months ago I signed up with Duolingo to study Japanese. I've been fascinated with Japan and the Japanese culture pretty much a...

One of the reasons that it's (generally) much easier to learn to read a second language than it is to understand it in speech has to do ...

Being a linguistics nerd, I've often wondered why the phonemic repertoire differs between different languages.  Put more simply: why do ...

If I have one major beef with the education system in the United States, it would be its steadfast refusal to use the latest research on how...

If we needed any more indication that our moral judgments aren't as solid as we'd like to think, take a look at some research by Jan...

The idea of artificial intelligence terrifies a lot of people. The reasons for this fear vary.  Some are repelled by the thought that our ...