Has anyone ever poked fun at the way you talk, how you pronounce a word or phrase? For Philadelphians, it might be “wooder” “caw-fee” “bee-yoo-dee-full” or “jeet?” But all of us have some kind of ...

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On a recent podcast, Frank Bruni had this question about President Donald Trump: “Whom or what is he going to attack next? He has bashed Taylor Swift. He just went after the pope. No beloved icon is ...

iPhone users have discovered a hilarious hack to make their device talk back to them. The personalization idea has taken social media by storm as people show off how they’ve brought pizzazz to the ...

If you stop by your neighbor’s front stoop or go to that networking event or say hi to a colleague in the breakroom, you’ll almost definitely end up making boring small talk—right? The kind that makes ...

If you’re avoiding small talk or casual chats because you think they’ll be boring, you may be missing out on meaningful connections, new research finds. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

In this wide-ranging account, linguist Fridland (Like, Literally, Dude) surveys cutting-edge sociological, psychological, and historical explanations for why accents exist and what effects they have ...

Sport has always been a powerful vehicle for men to communicate with each other and golf is peculiarly suited to that given its leisurely pace of play. CHAMPIONS RUN: Rory McIlroy runs down the third ...

What makes powerful “weirdos” so fascinating is that their strangeness is often not incidental. Unusual habits, eccentric branding, rule-breaking behavior, and theatrical confidence can make them more ...

The Orion spacecraft may only be the size of two minivans on the inside — but for the Artemis II astronauts, the capsule taking them to the vicinity of the moon has already proved to be larger than ...

Most people find quantum mechanics complicated and difficult to grasp. Add information theory—the math behind computing—into the mix, and it’s a real headache. But information theorists Charles H.