“Ohio.” “Brat.” “Cringe.” “Weird.” Coconut emojis. Viral memes are omnipresent this campaign season, distilling concepts, images and ideas into simple, replicable formats that spread rapidly online.

Installation view of Mely Barragán’s “Macho” (2009), thread pillow stuffing and fabric, variable dimensions, in ‘Customizing Language’ at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (photo by the author for ...

It’s true. According to researchers, babies are born with a special gift: their developing brains can tell the difference between the approximately 800 sounds that make up all the languages in the ...

Ever tried selling a car called “Corpse by Fisher” in Flanders? Or marketing a soda that “brings ancestors back from the grave” in Taiwan? These stories show us that words are very important in global ...

"In the same way that emotions were once judged too vague for scientific study, but now have thriving fields, we hope that the study of spiritual experience follows suit" -(David Yaden & Andrew ...

Exhibition view of Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s “Disputed Utterance” (2019) at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart; © Lawrence Abu Hamdan (courtesy Maureen ...

For the past five-and-a-bit months, I studied abroad in Madrid, Spain. Spain seemed an obvious choice to choose to study in as I speak and study the Spanish language, but I specifically chose Madrid ...