Communicating by text often involves those colorful symbols called emoji, those cartoon-like images of everything from smiley faces to sushi. As of Summer 2025, there were some 3800 of them, and every few months, the Unicode Consortium adds even...
How do you organize the books on your shelf? Author Jane Smiley has developed a method that fellow book lovers will appreciate. This is part of a complete episode.
Can you guess what a smiley is? No, the other smiley. Or how about tarantula juice? You could, of course, happen upon someone with a muffin top drinking inferior whisky, or you could look these terms up in the new Green’s Dictionary of Slang...
cutensil n.— «German design firms Authentics and Koziol have made much hay out of plastic’s new pizazz. Koziol’s spaghetti forks with a smiley face, ice-cream scoops with eyes and the “Tim” dish brush with legs are some of...