A retired professor wants to know if Latin grammar holds any clues about whether a female professor is properly addressed as “professor emeritus” or “professor emerita.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of...
luxus consumption n.— «Pennsylvania State University professor Dorothy Blair and Cornell professor Jeffery Sobal use the term “luxus consumption” to mean “food waste and over-consumption leading to storage of body fat...
Munchausen by Internet n.— «Dr. Marc Feldman, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama, has investigated such minds for 15 years, usually in the “off line” world. Feldman is an expert in fictitious...
God’s number n.— «But perhaps the most difficult challenge in cubing, and the one that has attracted the interest of Northeastern University researchers, is the attempt to determine the minimum number of moves it would take to solve the...
nana technology n.— «Get used to “nana technology”—technology that your grandmother might use. That’s what Andrew Carle, assistant professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., likes to call the wave of technology...
email bankruptcy n.— «The term “e-mail bankruptcy” may have been coined as early as 1999 by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who studies the relationship between people and technology. Professor Sherry Turkle...