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Carrie and Megan talk with Tim Brookes about his newest book, By Hand, about the importance of handwriting.
NBER report
Current Affairs
WOTY: 
6-7
rage bait
parasocial
vibe coding
AI slop
maple washing

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Carrie and Megan talk about Makaton, an artificial sign-based system, particularly Sara Novič's article about it.

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Carrie and Megan talk about random words that are scary or scary-adjacent.
facsism
eldritch
ghost
vampire
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We have a few things to say about Pinker.
Part of the War on Science
The Language Instinct
Pinker on Race Realism
Co-authored paper on overregularization
The Open Letter to the LSA
The article that Carrie was interviewed for, but not named, about the Open Letter
Our episode on dogwhistling
The Harper's Letter
Guardian on his appearance on Aporia
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Carrie and Megan talk with Adam Aleksic about his new book, Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language.
Bromism and ChatGPT
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