Human language is structured to minimize mental effort by using familiar, predictive patterns grounded in lived experience.

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Learn how to implement a classic substitution cipher in C! This step-by-step tutorial walks you through encoding and decoding ...

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

As young people take on a messy dating landscape, they’ve created their own lexicon to match. Here’s like what phrases ‘bird theory’ and ‘monkey branching’ mean This year marked a decade since the ...

I’m a letter writer. Like my mother before me and her mother before her, I regularly put pen to paper. I know this makes me unusual: most Americans haven't written a personal letter in years. The ...

A research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a method to accurately and efficiently read DNA containing non-standard bases — a task once thought too ...

And we are baaaack with Part 2 of “Guess the City From The Shuffled Letters.” We’ve prepared a brand-new batch, with 29 cities from all around the world. Some will be obvious, while others might have ...

In her latest column, Shirley Matschall takes aim at Google's umbrella company, acrostic style... Once the U.S. District Court ruled that Google didn’t have to sell its browser, it was only a matter ...