In my decade of advising Fortune 500 companies as a behavioral researcher, I've found that one of the most effective ways to stop a manipulator is one key phrase: "That's interesting. Tell me more." ...

The cover of "The World in a Phrase" beside author James Geary. (Courtesy of James Geary) Author James Geary loves aphorisms, those short, witty statements that often contain profound truths. In 2005, ...

We think deep, but we often talk shallow. If you’ve ever argued with a partner, you understand this. You might fight about who should clean the sink, but it’s not really about the sink — it’s about ...

Watch out! Thunder goats are dropping in! They use their magic hammers to make sentences filled with potential. As a team, use your knowledge of adverbs and adverbial phrases to describe verbs and ...

Frequent use of a specific two-word phrase could be an indicator of dementia, signalling significant cognitive decline, experts have warned. Dementia is a condition characterised by a cluster of ...

Before 2015, the average person wouldn’t be caught dead using internet slang. To be fair, back then slang was “LOLcopter” and “epic fail.” It’s not that phrases like “Show me. To me, please” are any ...

Towards the end of Jane Eyre, our eponymous hero—having rebuffed her cousin St. John’s marriage proposal—lets us know that a touch of frost has settled on their relations as a result, and “he ...

From the window to the wall, you could build a bookcase to house all the misinterpreted words and phrases of the English language. One of them is “balls to the wall,” which sounds like a line from a ...

In a world of wild talk and fake news, help us stand up for the facts.

Knowledge is power is one of the most proverbial of proverbs. It’s succinct enough to fit on a bumper sticker and clear enough that everyone can grok it. But what did it originally mean? “[This ...