Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing …
We all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are fundamental to …
Creator of the famous Obedience Experiments and originator of the six degrees of separation" theory, Stanley Milgram transformed our understanding of human nature and continues to …
