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Writing from year after gross indecency arrest challenges ‘isolated mathematician’ image, says Cambridge academic

Kaffikok is a delightful unit of distance—the distance you can go before needing a cup of coffee. The word comes from the Sámi people of nor

Budding participants must enter their ‘short-short story’ before the closing date on August 22

Clear frontrunner leaves lucrative role at New York’s Dia Art Foundation to join UK arts organisation at critical juncture

This one rewards a little close attention—looking at each of the words and figuring out their different meanings or sounds. I’ve always love

Why does a country have 843 languages while another has only two? See how geography, isolation, and history have shaped the world's language

Few things in our culture are more wounding than the concept of healing — as if the pains and losses that we suffer are an illness, a malfun

For a long time, I’ve kept my ear (and eye) out for heteronyms: words that are written the same but said differently. Homonyms are easy to s

Elizabeth Bishop’s memorial service opened with a reflection by her partner Alice — whose near-loss inspired one of the greatest poems ever

From Regency-era "fan flirting" to online dating, we decipher the timeless looks, signs and gifts that signal secret love.

Few things in life are more exasperating than seeing the potential in someone you love and seeing them continually fall short of it, stumbli

Linguist Marten van der Meulen is fascinated by a special phenomenon: the Escher sentence. And although it can drive you crazy, he is happy

We all know that you make an acronym by taking the initial letters of a set of words and putting them together. So Random Access Memory beco

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