The Content CAT

24/12/2018

Merry Christmas from The Content CAT! 🎄🎅

Merry Christmas from The Content CAT!!

24/10/2018

My latest article published by the lovely people at Hack&Craft.

"What effect will technology have on us in the future? Will we be able to use our minds to control computers, communicate with animals, share memories and navigate the web, or is it all just fantasy?"

How will we communicate with the world by 2030, and how will technology change us as a society? We’re living through a technological revolution. The world around us is constantly changing and technology is advancing at an incredible speed. In just 20 years we’ve gone from cassettes, word process...

30/12/2016

Is the internet killing the printed book?
http://nyti.ms/2gXiYDV

Americans’ appetite for reading books — ones you actually hold in your hands — has not slowed in recent years, says a Pew Research Center survey.

27/12/2016

The psychological origins of waiting (... and waiting, and waiting) to work
http://theatln.tc/2c41cwL

The psychological origins of waiting (... and waiting, and waiting) to work

24/12/2016

Merry Christmas from The Content CAT!!

23/12/2016

College students experienced heightened connectivity in their left temporal cortexes after reading fiction.

http://theatln.tc/2cljA6A

College students experienced heightened connectivity in their left temporal cortexes after reading fiction.

20/12/2016

In English, we tend to borrow quite a few “untranslatable” words and idioms, like the ever-popular German Schadenfreude (pleasure at another’s misfortune) and the Sanskrit karma (a Buddhist concept of destiny being influenced by a person’s actions).

Perhaps they don’t always mean what they originally meant, but we’ve made them our own.

http://bit.ly/2gVZFyi

Why English speakers love "hygge" and other "untranslatable" words about emotional states.

27/09/2016

Who decides what becomes an emoji?

http://bit.ly/2c0frEv

It started with 176 icons. Now it’s grown to 1,800. But who decides what becomes an emoji? We lift the lid on the California coders who live and...

23/09/2016

Looking back on his days in front of a high school classroom, the acclaimed writer shares his views on grammar and explains why discovering great literature is like losing one's virginity.

http://theatln.tc/2c40Bep

22/09/2016

From Scandinavian crime to Karl Ove Knausagaard, it’s boom time for foreign fiction in the UK. But the right translation is crucial...

http://bit.ly/2a7guAb

How foreign fiction is booming in the UK, and the secrets of some of the world’s best translators

17/09/2016

When we talk about ‘English’, we often think of it as a single language. But what do the dialects spoken in dozens of countries around the world have in common with each other, or with the writings of Chaucer? Claire Bowern traces the language from the present day back to its ancient roots, showing how English has evolved through generations of speakers.

http://bit.ly/1HAHlhz

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/where-did-english-come-from-claire-bowern When we talk about ‘English’, we often think of it as a...

13/09/2016

According to researchers at Reading University, the oldest known word in English is “who,” dating back more than 20,000 years...

http://bzfd.it/2cxE3Y3

What even is this crazy tongue we speak?