As a linguist, I’ve lost count of how many times I have been asked what I think of the various language-learning apps. The truth is that I don’t use them. But of late I have been watching my daughter, ...

March 16 -- Buckminster Fuller once said, "God is a verb." He did not mean that literally, of course, but metaphorically. I think he was trying to say that love is action. He did NOT go on to use that ...

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Please note that this is a little more technical than my previous articles – sometimes I need to let my inner-geek out. Simply because RESTful APIs are based on resources and use the HTTP verbs (GET, ...

After examining 18,000 online articles published by the Financial Times, The New York Times, and the BBC, scientists discovered that verbs and nouns used by financial commentators converge in a ...

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