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Knowable Magazine

What are the limits to what’s knowable — and how does our thinking about big questions in science and technology evolve over time? The Knowable Magazine podcast explores puzzles as diverse as the existence of black holes and how to build an artificial heart — with plenty of surprises along the way. Hosted by science journalists Adam Levy and Charlotte Stoddart.

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Episodes (16)

Feb 24, 2025 Speech interjections aren’t throwaway lines
Jul 18, 2023 Quantum entanglement’s long journey from ‘spooky’ to law of nature
Jun 27, 2023 How the placebo effect went mainstream

Knowable

Feb 24, 2025
14 minutes
20 MB

Bonus episode: Knowable Magazine Podcast co-host Adam Levy talks with linguists Mark Dingemanse and Martina Wiltschko about the importance of the little “throwaway” utterances we use during conversations — such as Mmhmm, Huh? and more. Long ignored by scholarship, these interjections, as they’re termed, are key to keeping conversations flowing. But that realization was recent, because much of early linguistics research was done with written text and not actual, live conversations. You can read more about interjections in the related article authored by Bob Holmes at Knowable Magazine. Find the transcript of this episode, plus other podcast episodes...

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Speech interjections aren’t throwaway lines

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