The definition Harvard is using has been criticized as blurring the line between antisemitism and arguments against Israel and Zionism. Kenneth Marcus, chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for ...

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to ...

Ancient Greek is among the oldest languages in the world, but how did the pronunciation in Greek change throughout ... are spoken within the same syllable (for example, the English word ‘no’ contains ...

By Gina Kolata Obesity should be assessed in a way that goes beyond the standard measure of body mass index, or B.M.I., according to a new definition of the condition released by an international ...

If you watch a lot of the PGA Tour, there's a good chance you know how to pronounce most players' names. Heck, just being able to read helps a lot. But there are always fresh faces, from hot-shot ...

Demi Moore laid down the law on how to pronounce her name — and it turns out fans have had it wrong this whole time. The movie star, 62, addressed the name debacle during an appearance on ...

Microsoft Word came out during Ronald Reagan's first term in the Oval Office, and in the decades that have passed between then and now, it has become one of Microsoft's most important and ...

Slowly but surely, linguistic communities are benefiting from initiatives to promote local languages. A French–Ewe dictionary ...

If you’re brave enough to enable Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Microsoft Word and wade through its security warnings, you can now play Doom right inside your word processor. To make ...

In a nutshell: Netherlands-based software engineer Wojciech Graj has created another unusual port of the iconic first-person shooter Doom, ingeniously embedding it within a Microsoft Word document.

It was announced today that the weatherfront set to batter the UK on Friday, January 25, has been named Storm Éowyn. While most people will be concerned with the disruption it will cause, others ...

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a harbinger of other diseases, not a disease in itself. The idea of obesity as a ...