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Because knowledge that isn’t produced via traditional research methods can still have scientific value.
So long as English remains the gatekeeper to scientific discourse, shoehorning scientists of other cultural backgrounds into a single language comes with “the great cost of losing their unique ways of communicating ideas.” They gradually lose their own voice and over time, other ways of understanding the world can simply fade away.

A "reconfigured" Man Booker International Prize will split prize money equally between authors and their translators!

I began my language education at age thirteen. I became interested in the Middle East and started studying Hebrew on my own. For reasons I still don’t quite understand, I was soon hooked on the Israeli funk group Hadag Nachash, and would listen to the same album every single morning. At the end of a month, I had memorized about twenty of their songs by heart — even though I had no clue what they meant. But once I learned the translations it was almost as if I had downloaded a dictionary into my head; I now knew several hundred Hebrew words and phrases — and I’d never had to open a textbook.

In 2009 the Manx language was declared extinct. Today Isle of Man residents are using Twitter, music and schooling to help revive their ancestors’ mother tongue...

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Just one of many reasons to accelerate your study of another language: learning a second language has been shown to help eliminate biases that can otherwise hamper the decisions we make.

The benefits of language learning don't decrease with age. Rather, learning a new language can enrich your life at any time...

English speakers and others are highly egocentric when it comes to orienting themselves in the world. Objects and people exist to the left, right, in front, and to the back of you. You move forward and backward in relation to the direction you are facing. For an aboriginal tribe in north Queensland, Australia, called the Guugu Ymithirr, such a “me me me” approach to spatial information makes no sense. Instead, they use cardinal directions to express spatial information (pdf). So rather than “Can you move to my left?” they would say “Can you move to the west?”

An analysis of DNA from ancient Europeans points to a mass migration from the Eurasian steppe into Europe beginning some 4,500 years ago.

Pablo Neruda's extraordinary life, in an illustrated love letter to language

The idiom: Хоть кол на голове теши Literal translation: “You can sharpen with an ax on top of this head.” What it means: “He’s a very stubborn person.”