I have heard it said, by some popularizer of English or other

I have heard it said, by some popularizer of English or other, that today's "lol" is no longer the pure "lol" of two decades ago, but rather that it has evolved into some weird discourse marker that is almost a punctuation mark (I'm improvising here; I can't remember whether that linguist actually…

The Future of the Metaverse, Imagining the Internet

About That Song You've Heard, Kumbaya - The New York Times

TIL that, in June 1947, Kenneth Arnold became the first person to describe seeing a “Flying Saucer”, popularizing the common image of alien spaceships : r/todayilearned

The Evolution Of The Girl Group: How TLC, BLACKPINK, The Shirelles & More Have Elevated Female Expression

5 Phrases Shakespeare Popularized — People First Content

Unfinished Business

Singer Rosalia fuses world pop to create her own brand of radical beauty

François Rabelais Quote: “I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a

The Making of Edward Said's 'Orientalism

Trouble in the Archives,” by Janet Malcolm

Something Missing In My Heart, By Andrew Lawler, Issue 454

Groucho Marx - Wikipedia

Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Yuval Noah Harari Gives the Really Big Picture

The Invention of a Neighborhood, by Jonathan Lethem