List of All Articles with Tag 'big questions'

Nowadays, we use jones to express an intense craving for something. But it used to refer specifically to drugs.

Technically, it’s not. Connecticut’s “official nickname” is the “Constitution State.”

Among nicknames like “The Athens of America,” “The Cradle of Liberty,” and “The Hub of the Universe,” “Beantown” sounds very out of place.

The moon-made-of-cheese rumor may have started with a hungry wolf and a crafty fox.

Your dog’s instinct to furiously dig at their bed before falling asleep would make a lot more sense in the wild.

Cats and “Pspsps” go together like toddlers and the crinkling wrapper of a candy bar that you were trying to eat in secret. What gives?

Tin foil and aluminum foil are not the same thing.

“10-4” isn’t any quicker than saying “OK.” But it is a storied trucker tradition.

The shape of an animal’s pupils is a clue to its place in the food chain.

( )Parentheses (the single one is called a parenthesis), also known as curved brackets, have plenty of uses in everyday written language. Their most common use, as I’ve demonstrated already, is segregating subordinate material or asides. Usually, this is

It’s often said that Barbie is 19 years old, but the answer is a little more nuanced than that.

In the U.S., the terms ‘bison’ and ‘buffalo’ are used interchangeably—but they’re actually two different animals. Here’s how to tell them apart.