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We can read the sounds of the ancient Minoan script, Linear A, but we have no idea what the words…
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Look at your keyboard. Tucked above the number 8 is a symbol we see every day, yet rarely think about:…
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While memory palaces seem like a visual trick, their true power lies not in the images themselves, but in the…
How can we know what prehistoric people talked about without any written records? The answer lies in linguistic paleontology, a…
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