’Sealioning’ is the word that sums up why Twitter discussion is so unbearable
This neologism on Merriam-Webster’s list of words to watch aptly describes the frustration of conversing online
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Patricia Hluchy
Why our spoons will soon play music and we’ll eat bugs with our hands
The new science of ’gastrophysics’ studies how and why we eat, and is already starting to overhaul the way we dine
What it’s like to be All-American, Brown and Muslim after 9/11
’There’s no memorial to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died because of how the memory of 9/11 was used’
Ministry of Utmost Happiness author Arundhati Roy on returning to fiction
The revered author and Booker winner Arundhati Roy tells the story of characters struggling to invent new worlds amid India’s often violent political landscape
What the century-old murders of Osage people say about the U.S.
To this day, Oklahoma descendants of the victims live side-by-side with descendants of the killers