In The Political Mind, George Lakoff, an eminent cognitive linguist at the University of California, Berkeley, sets out to provide a mind science primer for progressive US politicians. His hope is that,... more inside

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Author George Lakoff discusses his book "Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea" as a part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place Thursday, July 12, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

Mongrel nation celebrates England's history of being culturally and genetically diverse with an eye towards the language and the customs of modern Britain. Eddie Izzard is pretty darn funny. These clips... more inside

Highlights from Futurama's (to date - the show's coming back!) series finale, focussing on the correct use of the word irony.

Interview with Noam Chomsky regarding his Linguistic work published at the time. The last part contains a discussion of his political views regarding the Vietnam war and Libertarian Socialism.

Foxxy Cleopatra is a cunning linguist and Austin Powers is a master debater while they meet Mr. Roboto

For some scientists, the brain has become the last frontier to conquer. This eye-opening six-part series explores the grand themes emerging from the latest brain research that is producing a whole new... more inside

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbr-4x5H1tk BILL MAHER REAL TIME MAY 11TH 2007 - In which Bill immediately asks Frank Luntz what the sudden use of the prefix "DR." is all about. Dr. Luntz then... more inside

Chomsky and Trivers (an evolutionary biologist) discuss the workings of deception and self-deception. One of the few interviews with Chomsky in which he links his two main interests: politics and linguistics.

apparently anyway.... What other rational reason could there be for firing the ~50th Arabic linguist for nothing more than being gay?

Tom visits his role playing friends from childhood. Hilarity ensues. I believe this is from some kind of TV-series; my limited knowledge of the French language has not helped my research... More info for the linguistically lucky: http://tomchums.blogspot.com/