Slang terms like "rage bait" and "6 7" reflect youth culture, spreading rapidly via social media platforms like TikTok.

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How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.

Tue, Dec 23, 2025 King Charles, like many across the world, is no doubt beginning to look forward to Christmas. With ...

Write the name of a place (house, spot in nature, work, restaurant, etc.) at the top of your paper, and then do a stream-of-consciousness writing about that place and see what bubbles up. Pick a ...

Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral pronoun. That movement just took a big step forward.

Research compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote lecture notes by hand during the same time.

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After three talks, I've distilled the process into the key steps every speaker should follow to get ready for the stage.

“Ikùn,” I repeat, pointing to the illustration of a brown stomach under a turquoise shirt on the page before us. My daughter mimics the picture by raising her top and revealing her tummy. She pokes ...