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...
Schwarzenegger mouse n.— «In the United States, the first news media reports of gene doping appeared in the late 1990s, when word got out that “Schwarzenegger mice” were being produced in the lab of H. Lee Sweeney, a molecular...
grenade n.— «The problem was the third leg of this female tripod: the grenade. Now, this is a term my roommates and I use to describe the friend of the hot girls who was not blessed with the same physique as her head-turning counterparts...
supertanker hotel n.— «Secondary and tertiary cities across the U.S. are using “supertanker” hotels to anchor revitalization. » —by New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies 29 Annual International...
festino n.— «It’s that time of year again when lovers of the arts, fondly known as festinoes, make their annual pilgrimage to the Grahamstown Arts Festival in the Eastern Cape.» —“Witsies will also have a role to play at the...
Broken Pipe n.— «It would be foolish to think that Browne transformed BP from a dirty oil company to a progressive, renewable, squeaky-clean energy source. On the contrary, BP has a dismal environmental record—critics jokingly refer to...