Culture
An Aboriginal Australian people of northern Queensland speak a language with no words for left or right — only for north, south, east, and west — so instead of asking you to move your left foot, they will ask you to move your east foot, and can point due north almost without thinking
Jo Harkin: “The Middle Ages was full of bold and irreverent voices”
Towards a new growth space
He said Yes!: How women are reclaiming the marriage proposal
Review: The Bengali Reader,Edited and translated by Arunava Sinha
Why K-Pop Is Helping Foreign Fans Learn Korean Without Feeling Like They Are Studying
Quote of the day by Marcus Garvey: ‘A people without the knowledge of their past history…’
Chris Packham: Neurodiversity would save us in an apocalypse
This 99-year-old ballet teacher once taught Parisian royalty. Now she teaches in Pasadena
Almost everything the movies taught you about Egypt’s pyramids is wrong — not slaves but paid workers, not marooned in empty desert but built beside a river now vanished, not an undocumented mystery but a supply operation we can still read, day by day, in an inspector’s own logbook from four and a half thousand years ago
In Cantonese, changing the pitch of a single syllable can change a word’s meaning completely — and languages like it are significantly more common near the equator than in colder, drier parts of the world, a pattern linguists have tentatively linked to humidity’s effect on the vocal cords
Quote of the day by Salman Rushdie: ‘People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless…’
There is a language on a small Spanish island in the Canary archipelago that is made entirely of whistles, can carry a full sentence across six miles of mountain ravine, and is still taught to every child in school
4 Surprising Habits of Korean Office Culture for Foreigners
Quote of the day by Shahid Kapoor: ‘You have to do what is right to you, and you should never be apologetic about it…’
More Thomas Dambo giant troll sculptures heading to Puget Sound area
How sugarcane lends its sweetness to verse
G-Dragon Appointed UNESCO Ambassador for World Heritage Peace
Review: The Madhouse by Gyan Chaturvedi
'I thought something was wrong': Man shares biggest difference between Indian and Norwegian families
