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Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have used MRI data to create what they call a "semantic atlas," using vivid colors in multiple dimensions to show how the brain ...

Seke is a language spoken in just a handful of towns in Nepal—worldwide, there are fewer than 700 people who speak it. More than 100 of those people live in Brooklyn and Queens, according to the ...

One of the ways America shows its diverse culture is in the sheer number of languages spoken by the country's people. The above map shows which languages other than English and Spanish are the most ...

On picking up inspiration from Berkeley slam poets in the ’80s: “It was so brash and in your face. All the poems I was thinking were quieter. I had anger. It wasn’t that same kind of anger, but I ...

Maps of the world are typically written with the language of the viewer in mind. But the zoomable Endonym Map takes a different approach, writing each country’s name in one of that country’s own ...