You may have grown up thinking you knew what was what in science, back when Pluto was a planet, the opposite sex had cooties, and the last 10% of every beverage was known to be backwash. But things change, including the periodic …
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Lovers of the 1980s (and late ’70s), rejoice. It looks like Rocky: The Musical is on track to becoming a reality. “Ohhhh, tough Dolph Lundgren/ Gonna make him stunned then/ ‘Cause I won’t be rotund then/ When we meet at the …
An auction of Bernie Madoff’s household goods, ranging from paintings to prescription eyeglasses, brought in about $400,000. Among the items were 14 pairs of boxers that sold for $200. Which leaves one haunting question: Would …
The Pew Research Center and the Washington Post teamed up to find out how America feels about the current (possible) candidates for the Republican party’s 2012 bid. The top response was unimpressive, perhaps because it was the …
People with names that start with letters toward the end of the alphabet tend to making purchasing decisions much faster than their early-alphabet counterparts, a study finds. In other words, the closer to Z you are, the zippier …
Just up the street from the National Harbor in Maryland, America’s fiercest young spellers are battling for the honor of being the country’s top letter-wielder. NewsFeed filed a dispatch from the semi-finals.
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
If only its name was half as cute as its little, furry, endangered face.
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
It started with one man walking into a cobbler’s shop in northeastern Mexico (as so many stories do). He asked for custom-made boots with curled toes so long that the most flamboyant genie would have writhed with envy. Then he …
In another bout of tough press for TSA, the Texas House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill on Friday that prohibits “intrusive touching” when people are seeking access to public buildings and forms of transportation.