What a haul! We received 553 entries in this week’s Cartoon Caption Contest. There were tons of great punchlines sent in, and ...

“I know the word ‘pain,’ and I know people are in pain, because you can see it,” Joanne Cameron, a seventy-two-year-old retired teacher, told me, in the cluttered kitchen of her century ...

Far from being soothing, words and counselling can actually increase the intensity of physical pain, a study finds. Warnings such as "this may hurt a bit" or "you might feel a little pain" can be ...

WebMD provides an overview of treatments for chronic pain, from surgery to herbal remedies.

Using the F-word when pain strikes increases pain tolerance by up to a third Credit: Alamy A panel of experts explored how effective real and new, made-up swear words are in helping to increase ...

It’s official – swearing DOES help us tolerate pain, according to scientific research. A study found using the F-word when pain strikes, increases pain tolerance by up to a third. A panel of ...

Pop culture doesn't just give us countless hours of entertainment—it also shapes our language. The way words enter dictionaries are often a reflection of the times, with certain words becoming ...

Step by step instructions teach kids to turn words like robot, fruit, city, and lion into fun cartoons. In addition to the words, Logue includes lots of individual letters (though not the entire ...

IDEAS May I have a word: Stain pain Laundry disasters and the anxiety they provoke.

A political cartoon depicting a murdered 2-year-old has added to a family's emotional response to his murder.

On a foggy February morning in Oxford, England, I arrived at the John Radcliffe Hospital, a shiplike nineteen-seventies complex moored on a hill east of the city center, for the express purpose of ...

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