The Language of Hip Hop, a new longform data visualization by Matt Daniels, takes a deep dive into the lyrics of hip-hop to figure out what, precisely, makes the genre so compelling. “This was an ...

“To be, or not to be” could have been the perfect start to a rap song. Some have even called Shakespeare the original rapper, his use of iambic pentameter the first dropped beat. So, it seems fitting ...

Canines have a unique talent for learning a vocabulary of toy names can pick up new words by simply overhearing conversations ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. All words are unique. Each has its very own spelling, meaning and purpose.

Designer and data scientist Matt Daniels charted this neat comparison of vocabularies in hip hop. At the bottom of the chart you can see DMX with only 3,214 unique words. Outkast has more unique words ...

For a small, island nation, the UK punches well above its weight when it comes to linguistic diversity - in fact, there's estimated to be nearly 40 different dialects and associated accents. Which ...

Neuroscientists have found that an area known to be important for reading in the left visual cortex contains neurons that are specialized to process written words as whole word units. Although some ...