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Adam Aleksic, who posts as Etymology Nerd on social media, argues in a new book that algorithms are reshaping the English language.
One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...
The National Health Service was established 77 years ago this month. Resident doctors are about to strike for more pay, long ...
The following news items are reprinted from the Manistee Daily News for the week July 3-9, 1925 and are compiled from the Manistee County Historical Museum’s newspaper archives. Read the full 100 ...
Bill Nye is known for educating kids as the “Science Guy” in the ’90s but in recent years, the TV personality has used his ...
A century after the Scopes Monkey Trial, North Carolina has crafted legislation resurrecting that fight under a new name. | ...
Gayle King gets a surprise sendoff from celebrities, astronauts and friends ahead of her historic women-led Blue Origin flight.
Preaching before the first presidential inauguration of Bill Clinton, another Baptist progressive, Moyers got down to basics, sharing a saying he heard from his father that Cain and Abel were "the ...
Author's Note: The following is an open letter I wrote to Bill Nye back in 2016 after he posted the Big Think short referenced in the letter. Shortly after I wrote the letter, we met at a ...
The year was 1976 and Jimmy Carter, a Sunday school teacher from Georgia, shocked major newsrooms by discussing his born-again faith. Presidential candidates were not supposed to do things like ...
The year was 1976, and Jimmy Carter, a Sunday School teacher from Georgia, had shocked major newsrooms by discussing his born ...