Jeffrey Epstein’s death on August 10, 2019, sparked a flurry of conspiracy theories, and the release of Epstein’s purported suicide note on May 6, 2026, is a good bet to be fodder for more. But ...

Jeffrey Epstein’s death on Aug. 10, 2019, sparked a flurry of conspiracy theories, and the release of Epstein’s purported suicide note on May 6, 2026, is a good bet to be fodder for more. But ...

If producing the kinds of unsupported claims and faulty reasoning AI chatbots are known for warrants boycotting what produced it, as this post argues, we should treat that post the same way because so ...

When Donald Trump popularised the term "fake news" in 2016, he wasn’t just criticising CNN or the media—he was weaponising language. What started as a critique of misinformation quickly became a ...

Two of the main theoretical approaches to the evolution of language are biolinguistics and usage-based approaches. Both are often conceptualized as belonging to seemingly irreconcilable “camps.” ...

Understanding the deep meaning of the Second Amendment is critical to understanding American gun culture. The centrality of the Second Amendment in American culture can be better understood through ...

In the 1920s, the Soviet scientist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov used artificial insemination to breed a ‘humanzee’ – a cross between a human and our closest relative species, the chimpanzee. The attempt ...