Posts Categorized: language

Human Nature

When chatting with my girl the other day I mentioned how I thought the only mental process that was exclusive to us humans was the capacity to dream, fantasize, create scenarios in our heads. There’s no way to know this for sure, but Laurel Braitman has a similar intuition to mine in this lovely podcast… Read more »

What’s the name of that party?

In France they call house-warming parties “Crémaillères”, because that’s the metal piece that holds the cauldron over the fire and it was the last part to be added to a newly built household.