Michael Erard

Michael Erard is a linguist and author who writes about language, languages, and the people who use and study them. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Science, The New York Times, Aeon, and other publications. He is the author of several books, including Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Simon and Schuster) and Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words.

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Neuropsych

The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind

Delirium is one of the most perplexing deathbed phenomena, exposing the gap between our cultural ideals of dying words and the reality of a disoriented mind.