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Dr Seuss Putting Rhymes to Good Use, by Kaptain Kristian

How the rise of the alphabet and analytical thought came at great cost to synthetic and systems level thinkers (women).

Surreal is Merriam-Webster's word of the year 2016. Sounds about right.

Multilinguals Experience Personality Change When Using Different Languages

Four New Names Officially Added to the Periodic Table of Elements

3 Ways to Better Understand Your Emotions, by Susan David of Emotional Agility

How South Park Pushed Language and the Boundaries of Censorship over 20 Years

The Art of Condolence

Why Panpsychism Is Probably Wrong

Annoying buzzwords to stop using at work...

Scholars Talk Writing: Steven Pinker

The 117 most beautiful words in the English language...

Compunctious means feeling remorse or regret. Here are 9 obscure words for feelings...

128 Words to Use Instead of Very

One Area of Brain Sees Familiar Words as Pictures, Another Sounds Out Words

We have no scar to show for happiness. ~Chuck Palahniuk

FDA Finishes Food Labels for How We Eat Now

Sisu: How to Develop Mental Toughness in the Face of Adversity

Emilia Lahti, Sisu, and the Glossary of Happiness by the Positive Lexicography Project, via the New Yorker

Why Some Vowel Sounds Pack a Punch for Brands

Color Coded Food and Flowers Photographed by Emily Blincoe

Disney Princesses Singing in Their Original Language Native Tongues in 4K

How to Make Up Star Wars Names, by Jenny Nicholson

Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’

Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider

Six Word War

50 psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, logically confused words and phrases

The Enduring Mystery Of Jawn, Philadelphia's All-Purpose Noun

Say Tell Me About It Not Tell Me Why (one minute video)

The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google’s AI Play Go

An Epic Takedown of Élite Brospeak by The New Yorker

8 things you didn’t know about Dr. Seuss

50 Tongue Twisters to improve pronunciation in English

How the Internet Talks

7 Phrases to Leave Off Your Resume

A Fraught Search for Succession in Craftsmanship

A Brief History of Cursing and Swear Words in Cinema Movies

Eight words that reveal the sexism at the heart of the English language

No food is healthy. Not even kale.

Vemodalen: Hierophante Cliches, An Animation Made from Thousands of Random Instagram Pictures

Sorry, grammar nerds. The singular ‘they’ has been declared Word of the Year.

Chris Pratt's Perfect English Accent and Perfect American Accents from Alice Eve and Emilia Clarke

Slivki Show Cat Lighting Up 10,000 Sparklers At Once

Greatest Finnish word ever: Kalsarikannit. Drinking by yourself at your house in your underwear with no intention of going out.

10 Words People Who Lack Confidence Always Use in Email

Fast Facts Regarding Your Body Language by Gary Markell

Pink fairy armadillo digging gif

"Tsundoku," the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language

How to Go to Space Explanation in Simple Words by xkcd and MinutePhysics

5 Ways To Improve Your Speaking And Writing At The Same Time

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