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They say at its center, fire burns hottest. This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we journey straight to its core. It’s a hot topic that’ll spark your interest.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: the origin, evolution, and pop culture triumph of the bastard!

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, science writer Carl Zimmer on what it means to be alive and linguist Ben Zimmer on what it means to be human.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: the past, present, and future of profanity.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: a crash course in the study of meaning-making, in the science of semiotics.

Most of the Western world is organized by alphabetical order, which is so much more than the 26 letters that make up the alphabet. Alphabetical order is…

Dragons have captured our imagination going back to the Greek and Roman Empires when the skeletal bones of dinosaurs fed the myths we still believe…

You’ve been working late and you just finished a big report that you sent off to your boss. And you received a one word reply back - "Thanks (period)."…

Fire imagery abounds in music, literature, art, and scripture. It thrives at the center of ceremony and ritual around the world. We associate fire with…

We all communicate in our daily lives, but how do languages actually work?Read a transcript of this program here.This hour, we talk with linguist Nicole…