In their podcasts Mija and Moonface, Lory Martinez and James Kim create autobiographical fiction...
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St Valentine's name may nowadays be all over the romance-related merch for 14 February, but he...
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"Sometimes I've heard people talk about losing a child and people say it's like losing a limb....
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Provoked by current events, we've got three political eponyms for turmoiled times. Get ready for...
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It’s August 2007. Lauren Marks is a 27-year-old actor and a PhD student, spending the month...
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Crazy, insane, nuts, mad, bonkers, psycho, schizo, OCD - casual vocabulary is strewn with mental...
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They're not ladies and they're not birds; they're not even technically bugs! But that's not the...
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Self-help is a multibillion dollar genre of books, and Kristen Meinzer and Jolenta Greenberg of...
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Last episode, I mentioned that in London, Ontario, in 2019 a 9-year-old named Lyla Wheeler had...
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If you were in Brazil during the military dictatorship of 1964-1985, tried to bake a cake from a...
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“I don't think that anyone should come away from this conversation not wanting to use the name...
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What do the hippocampus, homophones, Little Women, worrying and egg hacks have in common? They...
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Tranquillusionist: Gay Animals
This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, say a load of words which aren’t...
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“It's hard to address something if you can't actually name what it is,” says Moya Bailey, who...
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When is a war not a war? When the British Empire called it an 'emergency' so they didn't have to...
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Have you ever wondered why the planets in our solar system are all named after Roman deities,...
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A lot of people assume that Fiona is a very old Scottish name, but the first known Scottish Fiona...
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133. Cake is Mighter than the Sword
What to do to stick it to the powers that be? Send your message through something they really...
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“The starting point is, and the research questions are all framed by: 'We know it's terrible to...
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Today it's the etymologies you requested! And a few you didn't! We've got witches, wizards,...
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