Re-voicing the Past: The AT-ST Project
We can read the words of Charlemagne's era, but what did they actually sound like? A groundbreaking initiative called the "Audio-visual corpus of Old German" (AT-ST) is using clues from…
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The Language of Numbers Stations
Tune your shortwave radio to the right frequency, and you might hear it: a disembodied voice reading strings of numbers into the void. These are numbers stations, one of the…
The Descent of the Larynx: How a Quirky Evolutionary Shift Gave Humans the Power of Speech
Human speech is a miracle of evolution, but it comes at a steep price. Our ability to form a rich variety of sounds is thanks to a descended larynx, a…