Here you will find posts and links related to my academic interests.
For instance, Lera Boroditsky, a cognitive psychologist talks about the relationship of language and thought (the famous Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis):
http://fora.tv/2010/10/26/Lera_Boroditsky_How_Language_Shapes_Thought
or James Geary talking very compellingly about the pervasiveness of metaphor in our daily life: