Browsing: Language

Critical reading gets even better when you use your computer.

Using molecular codes, plants cry for help, ward off bugs, and save each other.

What do you say when faced with something so unlikely, so improbable, that you simply cannot imagine it ever happening? Perhaps you’ll admit your neighbor was right about who owns the shovel you’ve both used—when pigs fly. Or maybe your boss will give you that raise when hell freezes over. But would you ever say […]

What your word choice reveals about your thoughts and emotions, or how to liespot your way through everyday email.

Exploring why alphabets look like they do, what has happened to them since printing was invented, why they won’t ever change, and how it might have been.

A whimsical compendium of 100 odd and obscure words, illustrated artist Polly M. Law’s signature bricolage paper-dolls style.

What single Chinese men have to do with evolution and insults from Virginia Woolf.