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"Dr. Lera Boroditsky tells us about a language in Australia in which a pigeon-like ability to orient yourself is so crucial...you can't even say hello without knowing exactly which direction you're facing." Part of this podcast: http://www.radiolab.org/2011/jan/25/

Patrick Cox, public radio journalist, is also a lover of language and podcasting. This interesting blog compiles those two passions, featuring stories about diverse aspects of language. Some recent posts: pro-Trump Internet trolling, Arabic in America, Who Says Humor Doesn't Translate.

A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively hour-long public radio show and podcast about language examined through history, culture, and family. Each week, author/journalist Martha Barnette and lexicographer/linguist Grant Barrett talk with callers about slang, old sayings, new words, grammar, word origins, regional dialects, family expressions, and speaking and writing well. They settle disputes, play word quizzes, and discuss language news and controversies. Show topics include all aspects of modern language and communication, using anecdotes, culture, relationships, and families as starting points.

Grateful shout-out to Thomas Morris '13 for this link, which aggregates language-related podcasts from Public Radio International. Listen on iTunes for free or stream the story links on the website. Some of the highlights: "Dim Sum Warriors" a Chinese/English bilingual comic book app, the homophonic reason why Chinese marriages spiked on 1/4/2013, a 13 year old language activist teaching Kurdish, a banned language, in Turkey...

For he/she's a jolly bad pronoun How English Lost its Genders When Nouns Grew Genitals and other exciting articles

Three amazing stories about language: "We meet a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke, and retrace the birth of a brand new language 30 years ago." (also, the transcript is here: http://www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/transcript/)

i'm enjoying it right now! check out the video, too. i'll try to bookmark it (my first!).

Ahh...I see Ryan found it first! Thanks, Ryan!

JOHNSON is a fan of the Freakonomics books and columns. But this week's podcast makes me wonder if the team of Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt aren't...

NPR's Jasmine Garsd, cohost of Alt.Latino, NPR's weekly music podcast, speaks re: indigenous lyrics and music sung in indigenous languages, fused to Western idioms like hip-hop and electronica. The show itself, featuring artists who showcase their musical talents in indigenous languages from Mapuche to Tzotzil, Guarani and Quechua, can be found at this link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/altlatino/2015/03/05/390934624/hear-6-latin-american-artists-who-rock-in-indigenous-languages

The letter X is in vogue: from the iPhone 10 X, Latinx, to Gen X, it's everywhere. What catapulted this letter to notoriety? Read this article/listen to the podcast to find out what gives this letter its trendy and edgy vibe.

How are gendered languages holding up in society's current push for gender-neutral terms? This NPR podcast explores gender bias in the Spanish language, the role of the Real Academia Española, and efforts led by teenagers in Argentina to de-gender the Spanish language.

This is a super interesting article + podcast/interview about the last native speakers of Hawaiian. You learn about life and language on the Island of Niihau which is something we will never get to experience. It's 30 minutes and they discuss the tensions between second language speakers and native speakers of Hawaiian, evolution versus engineering of a language, the English influence over the Hawaiian accent, and more.