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Is Swearing Good for Your Brain?
Season 2
Episode 1
Does swearing get a bad rap? There's evidence that the shouting obscenities has an evolutionary purpose... and may be good for your psyche!
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11:26
Is it really "language," or just a digital illusion?
6:59
We'll have to figure out what the word "word" really means...
8:00
What can we learn about our relationship to monsters?
5:51
We're gonna have to ask you to go ahead and watch this video. "
12:22
It's one of the most contentious debates in linguistics!
7:05
The ways we use negation in language can be pretty complex, even AI can’t seem to make sense of it.
8:36
Join us as we try to figure out how our body parts got their names.