"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S ...

Tune into an appearance from Palantir CEO Alex Karp, and it's likely you'll hear an obscure word: Ontology. The term is a ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

Kawaii. You hear it in anime, you hear it on TV shows, and you hear it on the streets of Japan, where the word is spoken by young and old alike. With people around the world growing up on Japanese ...

A swear word is like a linguistic punch in the nose. Virtually every language and culture has them—and virtually every language and culture formally disapproves of them. But that doesn’t stop them ...

When we unpack its current meaning, we may find that we want—and need—to retool the word yet again. It was drawing, or disegno, as deployed in the making of Italian buildings during the Renaissance, ...

The human mind is astonishing. We can think through the toughest problems and find the smartest solutions. We can compute answers to the toughest mathematical questions. And we can apply our creative ...

Re “Loyola High apologizes for incident” (May 7): Loyola High apologizes over an incident after being accused of racism. Seriously! Racism is serious to all who may have been a target in their life, ...