A listener shares his youthful experience of misunderstanding the rules of baseball and what it means to run home, and Martha confesses to a similar goof as a junior-high-school-age basketball player. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript...
Word birth is Deb Roy’s term for the moment a child’s babble sharpens into a recognizable word. To study it, the MIT cognitive scientist and his wife wired their home with 11 cameras and 14 microphones, plus a privacy button, and recorded their...
run-off n.— «Michael Callen, who became interim CEO after Robert Genader left, told analysts on a conference call that the company has no plans to stop writing new insurance, a process known as going into “run-off...
stagger n.— «Myself, I go to the run-through and then to what is called the “stagger”, the first rehearsal without a script in one’s hands.» —“She put me in mind of the Hollywood star of whom it was enquired, ‘Would you...
ghost bike n.— «The latest incident came on the same day local cyclists had put up what’s called a ghost bike near the spot where 38-year-old William Korol died on Saturday in a hit-and run crash on Stony Plain Road. The ghost bikes...
