Not sure how I landed on this video—Twitter, maybe?—but after watching it I found myself on the Ant Lab YouTube + more
Not sure how I landed on this video—Twitter, maybe?—but after watching it I found myself on the Ant Lab YouTube + more
According to the fine folks at the Oxford English Dictionary, there are 171,476 English words currently in use. And not + more
From Scientific American, folks: “‘Oumuamua—a mysterious, interstellar object that crashed through our solar system two years ago—might in fact be + more
Just when I was starting to think that maybe—just maybe—millennials have been unfairly maligned, more evidence emerges that this generation + more
From Wesley McNair’s wonderful piece about the late poet Donald Hall and his assistant Kendel Currier, three things are abundantly + more
Before you take this advice seriously, ask yourself one question: Has the federal government ever—and I do mean ever—been right + more
“Not quite a cliché, not quite a term of art,” writes Olga Khazan, “a buzzword is a profound-seeming phrase devised + more
The other day I saw a bumper sticker that read “It’s Not Hard to Be Nice.” At first blush, it’s + more
You’ve all heard the rule: “I before E except after C.” But as the great Stephen Fry points out, it’s…not + more
“All human effort beyond the lowest level of the struggle for animal subsistence is motivated by the need to live + more
This one’s a beast: affect or effect? The simplest answer is that affect is a verb; effect is a noun. + more
We live in an age in which respectful, good-faith, reasoned debate is the exception rather than the rule. So I’m + more