Words wield power; they can significantly shape people, culture, and behavior. Yet while we grow ever more aware that we live and work in a world of finite natural resources, the language we use in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Tony Thorne first started researching slang, he was largely on his own. This was in the ’80s, when, according to Thorne, the ...

A word change today can transform how people think, act, and relate tomorrow. I was finishing my PhD at Stanford—three kids, big dreams, too little sleep—and on the job market. As I was looking into ...