
Recently, the Environmental Defense Fund launched a campaign to encourage business owners to improve their corporate fleet efficiency....

Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced that nine states, as well as the District of Columbia, would divvy up nearly $3.4 billion as winners...

By removing "the n-word" from Huckleberry Finn the editors will also strip away a lot of the meaning of the book.

A look at the most frequently used words in two books, one by Ann Coulter and one by Al Franken.

The dictionary got some exciting new additions today. Google, as a verb, with a lower-case "G," got in there. It entered the dictionary only five...
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Do you ever need to find a picture of a word? You probably don't. But one day, it will happen, and you'll be glad you know about the Visual...
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In Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, editors of storytelling magazine Smith have compiled the...

What do those people in Washington actually do all day? Probably not much, but you'd have to delve into the Congressional Record to really find...

Two years of campaigning, dozens of debates, hundreds of millions of dollars spent on ads, and it all culminates today. So how do you feel? In one...

A new tool for computer language analysis can evaluate your mind based on your Tweets (and might help psychologists, too)
Unless you've been...

There are so many different definitions of plagiarism-and so much written about it-that it can be hard to separate original writing from things...

Dissecting a symptom of our twisted tabloid culture
Infatuated with the lives of the rich and famous? Then you're probably familiar with (or...

Time Magazine's photos of the year. In case you were in a hole all year, you can quickly glean that the world had problems in Iraq, Israel,...

Bush gave his speech on climate change yesterday, and the media yawned. There was nearly nothing written about it. Maybe that's because Bush's...

The Top 5 Most Expensive Domain Name Sales. An original GOOD Video..

The 10 biggest sales in internet real estate. View How Much For a Word.com here..

Almost half a century ago, a 24-year-old rocked the design world. The architect's vision for modular housing-his master's thesis, actually-was...

I've always found the practice of giving a death-sentenced person the opportunity to utter a series of "last words" to be profoundly (and...

Ten years of technology, terrorism, and truthiness.
I don't know how blood tests work, and I don't want to: they ick me out. Still, I can imagine...

Spiders, mobs, and power: An intelligent word trend takes off. I’ve seldom been told I dress smartly, but I have always felt like a smart guy....