On this episode we learn about the history of the exclamation point, the question mark, and the semicolon (among many other aspects of language) with Florence Hazrat, a scholar of punctuation, who, to my great surprise, informed me that while a lot of language is the result of a slow evolution, a gradual ever-changing process, punctuation in the English language is often an exception to this – for instance, a single person invented the semicolon; they woke up and the semicolon didn’t exist, and then went to bed that night, and it did!
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286 - Notes on Complexity - Neil Theise
285 - What Do You Mean? - Celeste Kidd (rebroadcast)
284 - Awe - Dacher Keltner (rebroadcast)
283 - Cultures of Growth - Mary C. Murphy
282 - They Thought We Were Ridiculous - Andy Luttrell
281 - More Chat, Less Bot - Jeremy Utley, Kian Gohar, Henrik Werdelin
280 - Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg
YANSS 279 - Pluralistic Ignorance (rebroadcast)
277 - Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin (rebroadcast)
276 - How to Stand up to a Bully - Andrea Chalupa
275 - Blight - Emily Monosson
274 - Cascades - Greg Satell
273 - The Conspiracy Test - Jesse Richardson
272 - Quit! - Annie Duke (rebroadcast)
271 - Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff (rebroadcast)
270 - Defining Genius
269 - Deconstructing How Minds Change - Michael Taft
268 - The Status Game - Will Storr (rebroadcast)
267 - Do Your Own Research - Sedona Chinn
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