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From mic drops to manspreading: an Oxford Dictionaries update -Well, it’s that time again – new words have been added to the Oxford Dictionaries, including the OED. There are some pretty good ones this year, depending on your definition of good. Manspreading might be my favorite, although butt-dial is pretty ... more >
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Ebooks suck for learning – Baldur Bjarnason has written a relatively short but pithy post that brought to mind those articles claiming that digital books are making us stupid, blah blah blah. Bjarnason focuses on the way physical books are formatted to cue us in directions that allow us to ... more >