It’s a very satisfying thing to learn that there’s a word for an experience you didn’t know could be described by a word. Learning that, for example, clinomania is an “excessive desire to stay in bed” ...

Half of a word's meaning is simply a three dimensional summary of the rewards associated with it, according to an analysis of millions of blog entries undertaken by researchers. We make choices about ...

You've undoubtedly faced this problem: Say you're doing a web search, looking for information about fixing your car's engine. You go to a search engine like Google and type in "car repair." Google, ...

Use 'semantic gradients' to turn vocabulary study into a shared thinking activity that explores the subtle differences between related words.