Language
Putting conversation first: Jerusalem ulpan founder reflects on 18 years of teaching Hebrew to olim
Ami Steinberger’s Ulpan La-Inyan (ulpan.com) employs 80 to 90 teachers in a variety of time zones, teaching private lessons and group courses to roughly 2,000 students annually.
Banking made more accessible, in every language
Israeli AI English-learning startup Loora raises $22m. in Series B
Should we still learn foreign languages? - opinion
Breathless burdens: Coping with pain
How a new genetic tool can help you track ancient relatives
The researchers applied "ancIBD" to ancient genomes from across Eurasia and found hundreds of previously undetected pairs of relatives.
Artificial intelligence can predict events in people’s lives and even their deaths
A Danish study analyzed registry data on residence, education, income, health, and working conditions to make predictions with high accuracy,
Can artificial intelligence predict what's going to happen in your life?
Protecting sensitive data, preserving privacy, and addressing biases in the data are challenges that must be tackled before models like this can be deployed.
My Word: A time, a place, and a word for it
I don’t seem to have lived my year on the same page as the Oxford wordsmiths, and perhaps we live in a parallel universe.
Boost your vocabulary throughout your life – not just in school – to become a better reader
Vocabulary is something you have to work on your whole life, stressed Sigmundsson. “We have to work on our vocabulary from birth, throughout our school years, and really our whole lives.”
The history of war idioms and expressions
Let’s take a look at some idioms related to battle and see what they mean and how they originated.
'Dee Inglish Revolooshon': Changing the spelling of the English language - review
A new book describes a revolution in the English language, changing it for sound-based spelling.
Oxford University Press announces Word of the Year 2023
This year's winner means to have "style, charm, or attractiveness; the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner.”
Reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies can help them learn language
Babies don’t begin to process phonetic information reliably until seven months old – too late to form the foundation of language.
