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‘Am I being selfish?’ Why I want to ban this damaging word from the dictionary
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIf I ran the world, I’d ban the word “selfish” from the English language. Dictionary.com defines...
Patrick Hanks, lexicographer who illuminated the history of rude words and surnames – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPatrick Hanks, who has died aged 83, was a lexicographer, corpus linguist and onomastician, one who...
Baker: Biology of time perhaps could be better explained as an art form
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHere’s an entertaining little exercise: Define the word “time” without using any terms that refer to...
Lauren Boebert Compromises Herself With Badly Flawed Attack On Hunter Biden
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) shared a video of herself pacing the stage at the Conservative...
Your genetic code has lots of 'words' for the same thing – information theory may help explain the...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in the...
The Next Tech Backlash Will Be About Hygiene
Time via Yahoo News· 2 months agoChatGPT logo displayed on a laptop screen and OpenAI logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Tunis, Tunisia. (Photo...
The hurkle-durkle is TikTok’s latest trend. Is it bad for your health?
WJZY via Yahoo News· 2 months ago(Nexstar) – Move over bed rotting, there’s a new relaxation trend taking over TikTok that you...
Perry wins President's Teaching Award
Odessa American, Texas via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 28—Biology Lecturer Irene Perry has received the University of Texas Permian Basin's President's Teaching Award. The President's Teaching Award recognizes faculty for sustained excellence ...
An AI-generated image of a rat with unfeasibly large genitals made it into a peer-reviewed article,...
PC Gamer via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA rat looks at the viewer. Ordinarily, a scientific article entitled "cellular functions of...
Former "Gifted" Kids Are Sharing The Effect It's Had On Their Lives, And It's Actually Super Sad
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA while back, we wrote up a post about former "gifted" kids and the effect it's had on them in...
