Airplane passengers were blown away after learning that those ubiquitous “dings” on an airplane are actually a code crew members use to communicate with each other, among other things. A video ...

In the early 1990s, Joost Elffers, a successful Dutch book packager, met an American expatriate living in Amsterdam named Gary Goldschneider. Goldschneider was a brilliant but scattered polymath who ...

Anyone in a relationship or around one long enough soon realizes there are times couples speak their own secret language. Sometimes it's a private vocabulary that makes no sense to eavesdroppers but ...

Have you ever wished you could just figure someone out without having to go through all that pesky getting-to-know-you stuff? Have you ever wondered what someone's birthday says about them, beyond ...

The secret language of dogs is an intriguing thing. I've long wished I could understand the little grunts and barks my corgi sends my way each day. Sure, we can come up with our own interpretations, ...

Four years ago, Bob Simon traveled to the Central African Republic to explore scientists' latest discovery: a possible secret language shared among forest elephants. His description of the place was ...

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Give a journalist a buzzword and you’ve fed him for a day. Give a journalist a topic to investigate and explore and you feed the entire industry for years. Even more so when the topic is a sci-fi ...

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A new generation of artificial intelligence models can produce “creative” images on-demand based on a text prompt. The likes of Imagen, MidJourney, and DALL-E 2 are beginning to change the way ...

In the current digital landscape, Generation Alpha, those born post-2010, has developed a distinct form of communication on social media and gaming platforms. Their use of slang and emojis serves not ...

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