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'Wasting Time on the Internet' Is Now an Actual College Class
It's an attempt to explore how our minds might work when we're totally aimlessly clicking—and to create art while doing it.
For Who (Sic) The Bell Tolls: Why Future English Will Be Simpler
As languages expand, historically, they've also simplified. What rules will English shed as it becomes entrenched as the world's lingua franca?
War Games Don't Have to Be a Horrible, Desensitising Experience
Ubisoft's Valiant Hearts is the exact opposite. You’d have to be dead inside to not come away from it changed.
The Proper Ornaments Get VHS Woozy in Their Video for "Magazine"
The British duo apply mouth-to-mouth to the decade of free love.
Christopher and His Twink
When Don Bachardy was 18, he started dating Christopher Isherwood, a middle-aged novelist.
Why Are Journalists Being Imprisoned in Egypt?
The interim government is clamping down on its critics, which means imprisoning journalists from Al Jazeera and other media outlets. Increasingly, the only permitted speech is that which praises the authorities.
Who Cares About the Royal Baby?
We went to Quebec's finest British novelty store to figure out why anyone in Canada should give a shit about the monarchy.
Five Myths About Québec’s Language Laws
Early 2013 saw the resurrection of an issue most of us Quebecers wish we could bury alongside Céline Dion’s unsullied youth: The so-called “language wars” of Canada’s outsider province.
OMG! Literature Study Says Americans Are More Emotional Writers than the British
Since roughly the 1960s, written American English has slowly diverged from the English of our British cousins. Relative to the British, American writing is more emotional now. OMG ALL CAPS!
An Angry Ex-Quebecer's Rant about Student Protestors
With a new wave of protests rising in Quebec surrounding a $70 tuition hike, one man who used to live there is very angry.