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Outside, looking in. The Harem, Topkapi Palace, Istanbul. © Catherine Yiğit

From Çanakkale, thoughts about family create an invitation to a global community.

by Catherine Yiğit on 2 August 2010

Arnaldo Pomodoro's 'Sphere within a Sphere' at the Museum Building, Trinity College, Dublin. 2010 photograph by Javi Masa of Sevilla, Spain.

A Dubliner’s view of Globish, English, and the problem of global languages.

by Garry Prendiville on 12 July 2010

Aasif Mandvi of The Daily Show holds up an example of Chinese 'propaganda' in US public schools.

The Daily Show on Chinese ‘propaganda.’

by Bob Page on 10 June 2010

Na'vi characters in the movie 'Avatar' use an internally consistent artificial language created for the film.

A Na’vi language primer to ‘Avatar’ — how to out-Klingon Klingon.

by Bob Page on 19 December 2009

Smartphones make people act on information units of 25 words or less.

You’ve got 25 words. Go.

by Bob Page on 8 December 2009

Kansas state motto, ad astra per aspera, 'to the stars through difficulties,' at Wichita High School North.

Little house on the Chinese prairie: Have midwestern values moved to Beijing?

by Bob Page on 11 October 2009

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