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If a duck quacks on a rooftop, does anybody hear? Maybe not, but when she lays a nest full of eggs in a planter on the roof of D.C.’s Planet Word Museum, everyone starts watching. The momma mallard ...

Before reaching the entrance of Planet Word, Washington, D.C.’s new museum of language, visitors pass by an enormous sculptural weeping willow (designed by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer), its branches ...

Judy Woodruff: The Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C., described as the place that brings language to life, recently opened a new exhibit focused on wordplay. Jeffrey Brown takes a look at the ...

When two eloquent D.C. institutions team up, you should hang on their every word. That’s the case with the new play “English,” running now through March 12 at Studio Theatre in Logan Circle in a ...

Planet Word, a museum in downtown Washington, D.C. that explores the history and power of language, collaborated with a Georgetown professor to create “Inside Look: Dyslexia,” an interactive exhibit ...

WASHINGTON — Move over, cherry blossoms — there's a new springtime obsession waddling into the spotlight! A mama mallard duck has chosen Planet Word’s Rooftop Terrace as the cozy headquarters for her ...

Nick Olsen first noticed the mother duck while he was setting up for an event one morning on the rooftop terrace of D.C.’s Planet Word museum two weeks ago. “I was like, ‘What’s going on?’” said Olsen ...

Language is the quintessential example of what Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek called a "spontaneous order": institutions that emerge through the uncoordinated, unplanned actions of many human beings. No ...