Peer Review Week 2024: Ask the Chefs
Leading into Peer Review Week 2024, we ask the Chefs: What is, or would be, the most valuable innovation in peer review for your community?
Leading into Peer Review Week 2024, we ask the Chefs: What is, or would be, the most valuable innovation in peer review for your community?
No, we’re not advocating anything lascivious. But a reading experience requires a degree of engagement that one essayist overlooks.
WIth only three letters, “run” has over 645 different meanings.
Where do common food names come from, and how does changing the name of a food reflect marketing and sales?
Why do some names fall out of fashion, and how is the study of names like the study of genetics?
Why are English spellings so inconsistent and weird?
A new paper uses AI to decipher sperm whale vocalizations.
Which words do you mispronounce? Or rather, which words that you mispronounce today will eventually be “correct”?
If you’re reading this, odds are you know the 26 letters in the English alphabet. But do you know how they came to their current forms?
AI’s potential for translation makes science fiction gadgets an increasingly likely reality. But how did English become the dominant global language, and just what do we mean by “English”?
Why do some contractions work and others don’t?
Sure to come in handy this year, a primer on logical fallacies.
Place names tell us all sorts of interesting things about history and people. Also, what is the longest one word place name in the world?
The Curse of Knowledge is when we assume everyone else understands what we’re talking about, when they don’t. Good communication happens when we have the courage to make it simple.
Why are companies so effective at ruining slang?