In 2017 Kris De Meyer, a neuroscientist who directs the Climate Action Unit at University College London, ran the opening session of a conference on decision-making under uncertainty for an audience ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. If you read more than one or two articles on disability ...

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. Nominalizations are nouns that are created from adjectives (words that describe nouns) or verbs (action words). For example, ...

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 ...

In addition to being one of the most fun words to say—and hardest to spell—in English, “onomatopoeia” probably calls to mind a whole bunch of silly, fun words. Onomatopoeia is the process of creating ...

Your mom asked you to pick up shelled pistachios at the store, but you’d better ask whether she wants nuts still in their shells or those with their shells already removed. Because the word shelled ...

Some dogs have an amazing ability to learn the names of dozens, even hundreds of toys. Now, a new study suggests these super ...

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 ...