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Apr 2024
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Electric Soup - 22 April 2024

Hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produced by Stefanie Levine.
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When an international team of scientists traveled to a research station in Antarctica for six months, the language they all shared was English. After six months together, their accents changed ever so slightly — a miniature version of how language evolves over time. Plus, the esoteric lingo from another rarefied environment: the world of contemporary art. An ... Show More
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