Viorica Marian

Mar 19, 2024 | devicedaily.com | Viorica Marian |Valerie Fridland |Jenni Nuttall |John Sargent

Does it matter which language you speak? Words have the power to transform our lives By Next Big Idea Club February 08, 2024English has only one word for love, but other languages have many. Greek, for example, has seven—eros for romantic, passionate love, philia for intimate friendship, agape for universal love, and so on.

May 6, 2023 | fastcompany.com | Viorica Marian

By Viorica Marian, Matias Fernandez-Duque, and Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim3 minute ReadThe Coperni fashion brand made international news in March by selling purses made of meteorite. Coperni’s outside-the-box thinking has featured robot dogs as models and spray-on dresses at Paris Fashion Week. Model Bella Hadid broke the internet when she walked onto the runway wearing only underwear, before being sprayed with a compressed liquid that transformed into a white, fabric-like dress.

Apr 19, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Viorica Marian

The Lucky Pair Who Bought The 58-Cent Sweater at Goodwill Ended up With $43,020

Apr 19, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Viorica Marian

Comment on this storyCommentAbout 7,000 languages are in use around the world, a number that shrinks every year. How many will there be after large language artificial intelligence models such as ChatGPT-4, and their more powerful successors, entrench themselves in our lives? Far fewer. There is reason to believe that these tools could bring about a mass extinction of languages. And that, more worryingly, would expunge a diversity of ways of thinking and creating.

Apr 4, 2023 | behavioralscientist.org | Viorica Marian |Evan Nesterak |Daniel Simons |Christopher Chabris

When I first arrived in the United States as a teenager, I didn’t always know the meaning of the words that my American friends used. Sometimes I would infer or guess the meanings based on the context around us or based on other words in the sentence, and sometimes I would just ask what the word meant. One close friend would ask me, “What does it sound to you like this word means?” I would venture a guess based on how the word sounded. Oftentimes hilarity would en­sue.