With all its specialized notation and rules and means of expressing ideas, is it correct to say that chemistry is a language? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Chemistry is a Language” Hello, you have A Way with Words...
If you go to a department store, you’ll see the Men’s department, the Women’s department, and the Children’s department. So why do so many stores have a department that’s called simply “Baby”? Grant...
Paul from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, spent his first 30 years in Minnesota, so Wisconsin friends sometimes call him a mud duck. In that border-rivalry setting, it’s usually a good-natured jab at Minnesotans, much like cheesehead for Wisconsinites. Among...
sickler n.— «On a matter of semantics, the use of nomenclature derived from the names of diseases, such as “diabetics,” “epileptics” and, in this case, “sicklers,” may be viewed as pejorative and...
woodpecker n.— «I worked in the music business in the late “90s, and it would always rankle me to hear industry wonks refer to albums as “product” or “units.” I never used those words; I worked for a record...
frankenbite n.— «Frankenbite…An edited reality show snippet, most often found in contestant testimonials, that splices together several disparate strands of an interview, or even multiple interviews, into a single clip. A...