Valerie Fridland: English evolves, like ...

For over 20 years he has been a relentless critic of the extravagant claims made for the current generation of AI based on Large Language Models, or LLMs. But he is even more concerned about what may come next. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for inf ... Show More

Her mother’s skillful use of empathy to defuse a potentially dangerous encounter on the streets of Tehran when she was nine has stayed with her ever since. It led to her developing the concept of stoic empathy as a way to navigate challenges. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz comp ... Show More

Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd look ahead to the new season with clips from episodes on empathy – both helping defuse a dangerous situation in Tehran and its role in the very different circumstances of a doctor’s office; why chatbots can still be exasperating; Harriet T ... Show More

Valerie Fridland (Like, Literally, Dude) is a professor, sociolinguist, and author. Valerie joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why people dislike the word "moist" so much, how accents are a part of social identity, and where modern English developed from. Valerie and Dax talk a ... Show More

1004. This week, Karen Yin, author of "The Conscious Style Guide," discusses the concept of conscious language and its importance in promoting equity and respect. We explore the differences between conscious language and political correctness, the evolution of the singular "they, ... Show More

<p>On The Gist, Trump isn't strategic or defiant, he's just rapacious.</p> <p>When discussing #MeToo, the focus is often on the power that men exerted when sexually harassing women, but are their sexual motivations getting left out of the conversation? Emily Yoffe wrote about thi ... Show More

Celle que je reçois ce mois-ci fait bouger les lignes de notre sexualité... Nous prouve depuis maintenant 6 ans que notre clito est tout aussi puissant que le sexe de ces messieurs...Que notre plaisir est roi... et ce quoi qu’en pense le patriarcat...Notre liberté de jouir elle e ... Show More

Ricki is absolutely fuming after watching Meghan Markle's new Netflix special With Love, Meghan. We dive deep into all the moments that left Ricki rolling her eyes — from the awkward interviews to that cringeworthy moment when Mindy Kaling calls her Meghan Markle, and Meghan corr ... Show More

Pourquoi avons-nous autant de mal à parler de sexualité – même dans les relations les plus intimes ? et surtout a se connaître dans ce domaine ?Pourquoi tant de femmes et d’hommes finissent par se croire “bloqués”, “anormaux” ou “froids”, alors qu’ils n’ont souvent simplement jam ... Show More

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we are start out looking at whether there is actually any difference between various men’s and women’s bathroom products like shaving cream, razors, etc and why women pay more for basically everything. We also have a brief message from a s ... Show More

<div>Trigger warning: Stuff gets aggressively horny in this episode! Based off a listener suggestion, Connor and Dan dive into the twisted world of French intellectual figure Georges Bataille who dabbled in everything from economics to mysticism to eroticism because that's just t ... Show More

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Elizabeth Peterson about language ideologies and what we think when we hear different varieties of English. The conversation centers around Dr Peterson’s 2020 book Making Sense of 'Bad English': An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies (Rout ... Show More