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National Cliche Day is Nov. 3. So what makes a cliche a cliche? And why do we find ourselves rolling our eyes when we hear certain ones?
England Once Accounted for a Majority of English-language Neologisms. New Research Shows that the Number of New Words Generated has Fallen to Fewer Than 10% of the Total Excerpt from the Report AUSTIN, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, August 16, 2021 — The Sun might have set on the British Empire but the language continues to expand its global … Continue reading "Rise and Fall of England as an English Language Word Generator"
As "Respect" arrives Friday, Jennifer Hudson, director Liesl Tommy and others break down the most significant Detroit music movie in two decades.
Conclusions Peter Brown and Peter Timmerman argue that mainstream economics is an ‘orphaned discipline’. It is founded, they claim, on a “dated and unrevised metaphysical and prescientific vision" that is “incompatible with what we know about the universe and our place in it" (Brown and Timmerman, 2015). Looking at free-market theory in the context of the modern understanding of evolution, this assessment rings true. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Adam Smith’s concept of the invisible hand was a plausible hypothesis whe...
Nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll (U.S. Army, 1946) When I look back on it, it was quite quite odd that so many of us, back in the benighted 20 th century, accepted the threat of nuclear war (thousands of nuclear weapons perpetually poised for launch) as normal. Just part of the background noise for daily life. Anyone who expressed concern about living on the knife edge of catastrophe was probably either some sort of political extremist or some sort of unhinged commie sex pervert. But…even if all-out nuclear war were impossible, nuclear blackmail wasn’t. Some nation, NGO, or highly mot...