Still, in my immodest opinion, it ranks among the most scintillating gems of short writing ever created to head a consequential news story. It’s a headline. It may be the headline of the century. It ...

Sibilance explains how repeated “s” sounds shape language, poetry, speech, and sound effects, adding rhythm, emotion, and ...

Is Hamlet still Hamlet when every word has changed? A superbly diverting book about language and creativity ...

Operant conditioning, sometimes called instrumental conditioning or Skinnerian conditioning, is a method of learning that uses rewards and punishment to modify behavior. Through operant conditioning, ...

AJC readers write about the politics of political campaigns.

Paid media is often treated like a checklist item in a marketing plan: launch a few search ads, run a Meta campaign, maybe test YouTube if there’s budget left. But not all paid media is created equal, ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Neuroscience tells us that love is caused by ...

We’re all at it, all the time. Yet thinking, or how we should think about thought, is surprisingly hard to pin down. When I did a vox pop, for instance, a couple of friends described thoughts as ...