Patrick Cox: Podcast Interviews

Patrick Cox

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Journalist, Interview host

2 Interviews

Patrick Cox's Interviews

Patrick Cox & Ellen Jovin • 06 Jul 2022 • EN

Learning to love apostrophes

Ellen Jovin belongs to that rare breed of human with a passion for grammar. You will too if you spend a few minutes with her, your grammar anxiety melting away in minutes. That's what happens when apostrophe-challenged Patrick meets Ellen at her Grammar Table in New York's Central Park. There, Ellen fields questions fr

Patrick Cox + Kavita Pillay & Susanna Zaraysky • 22 Jan 2020 • EN

Is a polyglot’s brain different?

Susanna Zaraysky, speaker of nine languages, is one of those people who seem able to pick up French or Portuguese almost overnight. In reality, it's not so effortless—but is she cognitively predisposed to attaining fluency in so many languages? We follow her to an MIT lab where researchers put her through a series of t