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our lab in the news

02/02/12 - KQED Forum: First Person with Lera Boroditsky

10/04/11 - BBC 2 “Planet Word” TV series hosted by Stephen Fry

10/09/11 - National Geographic TV series “Brain Games”

08/30/11 - Scientific American piece on grammatical gender

08/11/11 - Pour La Science reprints an essay of mine (in French)

07/06/11 - BBC 4 "All in the Mind" interview on how metaphors shape reasoning

03/04/11 - NPR's "On the Media" features our work on metaphorical framing for social issues

02/23/11 - our work on how metaphors guide reasoning covered in Nature News (link) and Discover Magazine (link)

02/21/11 - Scientific American summarizes our work on time

02/01/11 - an article of mine appeared in the Scientific American

01/25/11 - RadioLab episode including our absolute space & time work

12/20/10 - a debate in The Economist on whether language shapes thought - I represented the "pro" side

11/12/10 - our research hillariously remixed into "8 bazillion awesome ways that language is totally whack!" by Cracked.com

11/05/10 - article on our work on space and time in an Aboriginal community in Australia in Science News

10/13/10 - Lera's lecture for Long Now is one of the picks of the week in the SFWeekly

10/18/10 - conversation about language, culture, and time in Snob.ru (in Russian)

10/09/10 - bloggingheads conversation with Joshua Knobe

09/01/10 - cover article on language and thought in the New Scientist

08/30/10 - interview with Radio Free Europe (in Russian)

08/27/10 - an article featuring our work in the Israeli magazine "The Calcalist" (in Hebrew)

08/26/10 - our research featured in the New York Times

08/09/10 - Schweizer Radio DRS (Swiss NPR) 1/2-hour radio special on Time (in German)

07/24/10 - an essay of mine in the Wall Street Journal

05/01/10 - feature in Stanford Magazine

04/16/10 - essay of mine published in Suddeutsche Zeitung (in German)

02/13/10 - article in Science News

12/17/09 - article in The Economist

12/01/09 - research featured in Italian WIRED

10/31/09 - research featured in La Repubblica

07/09/09 - article in Newsweek

07/09/09 - "Word of Mouth" interview for BBC

07/01/09 - interview on NPR's "Here & Now"

06/30/09 - interview on NHPR

06/18/09 - piece in the LA Times

04/06/09 - interview on NPR's Morning Edition

04/23/08 - article in the New York Times

05/01/07 - articles on language and color perception in Nature News, The New Scientist

02/04/07 - radio interview on NPR show Philosophy Talk on Mental Imagery

10/22/06 - radio interview on NPR show Philosophy Talk on Language and Thought

09/11/04 - interview on CBC radio Quarks and Quirks (listen here)

02/21/04 - radio interview for the Commonwealth Journal on WUMB radio

02/06/04 - BBC World Service radio interview (in Russian) (listen to it)

01/08/04 - story in the Economist (on-line version)

02/01/04 - story in the Indonesian journal Tempo (read it here in Indonesian)

02/07/04 - story in the Israeli paper Haaretz (read in here in Herbew)

11/18/03 - profile in the Boston Globe (on-line version)

11/30/02 - cover story in New Scientist magazine (read it here)

05/29/02 - 1hr chat about Linguistic Relativity aired on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio (listen to it)

03/25/02 - an article in the Scientific American (read it here)

03/20/02 - a 30-minute interview on NPR (low quality or high quality)

02/14/02 - an article in the Boston Globe (on-line version or print version)