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The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time.

A large study of 800 adults shows that pragmatic language skills—the ability to understand sarcasm, indirect requests, tone, ...

These are friends you've known almost since the cradle and who have been a part of your life since your youngest years. You've done everything with them: from the first pajama party to the first night ...

The default orientation for a Microsoft Word document is portrait. The portrait layout works well for text, but for images or graphs, the landscape orientation is better. Sometimes users would have ...

Swipe-right fatigue and awkward first messages may soon meet their match. Dating app Hinge today rolled out a new AI-powered tool called Convo Starters, designed to help users craft more thoughtful, ...

We all know that chatbots can be a crutch. But when used wisely, they’ll help you improve how you absorb, practice, and retain knowledge. Here's how I do it.

Apps like OpenAI’s Sora are fooling millions of users into thinking A.I. videos are real, even when they include warning labels.

I thought of this while leafing through Sam McCool’s New Pittsburghese: How to Speak Like a Pittsburgher. Published by Goodwill Industries in 1982, the booklet uses a dictionary-like approach to cover ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

We've all seen one in our feeds at this point: a wild bear sneaks into a backyard toward a toddler, only to be heroically chased off by the family dog (what a good girl!), or an alligator returning a ...

Neuroticism is a personality trait that increases your tendency to feel negative emotions. Learn how it presents and how to manage it.