There’s something so magical about the winter solstice. It’s often snowy and blustery outside, kind of like the setting of a movie, and because it happens in the midst of the holiday season, it also ...

Perhaps some of the worst people to explain the real meaning of Christmas are those who claim to believe in its central ...

For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building. In the last three months alone, over 1,000 books on happiness were released on Amazon, including Happy Money, Happy-People-Pills ...

Some holiday words have more than one meaning, like "trim" the tree. And some meanings have more than one word, like "gift" ...

It’s one of humanity’s biggest questions, and there’s no simple answer, but let’s give it a try anyway: what is the meaning of life? We asked a philosopher and a physicist to shed some light on the ...

Christmas promises that God is with people the world has forgotten. The first Christmas, Mary and Joseph were forced to ...

Psychologists, such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, have long theorized on the deeper meaning of dreams. But other experts believe dreams don’t have much meaning. Share on Pinterest Nina ...

Even if you’re not a full-blown grammar nerd, you’ll find the origins of these words that changed meaning over time completely fascinating The English language is alive—and like any living thing, it ...

How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication. A few weeks ago, certain corners of the ...

Emojis are everywhere in our daily chats, helping us express emotions without saying a word. But sometimes, using the wrong emoji can send the wrong message and lead to some awkward misunderstandings.

These are not “nice-to-haves”; they are prerequisites for distributed cognition, operating at machine speed. As Tatipamula and Cerf point out, the network can no longer simply host intelligence. It ...