Valerie Fridland: English evolves, like ...

<p>MASH changed Alan’s life as well as the lives of the rest of the MASH cast. In this revisit of a free-wheeling conversation recorded in 2019 Alan, and the gang reminisce about an extraordinary eleven years of connecting and communicating.</p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an A ... Show More

<p>Alan revisits a conversation he had with Michael seven years ago, at a time when Fox had been grappling with Parkinson’s Disease for 27 years and Alan for three. As Alan says in this updated episode, both have been fighting Parkinson’s with attitude – plenty of attitude.</p><b ... Show More

<p>A confident prediction from the man who first brought our warming planet to public attention some 35 years ago. Energy from solar and wind is now cheaper than traditional fossil fuels and is being rapidly adopted across the world. The exception is the US where the federal prio ... 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

<p>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 "th ... 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