Volcanoes stole the show in Iceland. Restless, the craters have erupted into new phrases, endowing Óróapúls (tremor pulse), ...

One of the fun things about English (though frustrating for those learning the language) is the way two words can be spelled ...

For an author and illustrator of books about Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein, 'vulgarizer' is actually a compliment.

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Danish director Mads Hedegaard had to invent new languages for the Stone Age epic “Stranger.” “I have a background in ...

By the time he was jailed again, in 1927, a judge at the Derby Assizes was upgrading him to be “the original cat burglar”. Which may not have been strictly true, since the Oxford Dictionary says the ...

Mace, a Republican congresswoman from South Carolina, was asked by a colleague to have a discussion "without offending human ...

While it might be a bit of an uncomfortable experience, there’s no underestimating the joy and pure eccentricity that the ...

When I went home for winter break, I was immediately hit with a question from my sister: “Are you raising your ya-ya-ya?” ...

Trump’s “buyout” offer (aka the “agree with me or leave” special) has hit the CIA.

The definition of ethnic cleansing is the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a ...