How speaking — and misspeaking — provides a window into our mental activity: A review of Um...: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean by Michael Erard. The sign language of an isolated village sheds light on how the mind works: A review of Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind by Margalit Fox. A review of The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot. A review of The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.

New take on Puff The Magic Dragon: Children's book offers a new, drug-free take on the dragon made popular in the song by Peter, Paul and Mary. English folk songs are a cultural treasure comparable to Shakespeare – so why are they so under-appreciated? A review of

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