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I Know Who Wins the Game of Thrones
But first, what is a game? The word grows more interesting as our world—and language itself—grow more “gamified.” The classic definition of a game—a set of rules for play or competition— emphasizes…
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The New Math is My Father’s Math
My father is an engineer. For a time, in the 1960s, he worked on the heat shield for the Apollo modules that took us to the moon. When the missions stopped, he…
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Writing is a New Word
As I write in The Interactive Voice, words themselves are thesis statements. The lawyer Raphael Lemkin first developed and coined the term “genocide” in response to the Armenian Massacre at the hands…
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On the Significance of Days
When I was a kid, the calendar divided into average days and holidays. On holidays, there were presents and candy. Then the presents—and the holidays—lost their luster. I still remember the first…
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Prompts are the New Assignment
My family loves Harry Potter. Our oldest borrowed more books from her school library last year than anyone else in the building, but Hogwarts is still her favorite world. She falls asleep…
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The Most Precise Word in the Dictionary
One of the ideas behind my writing course is that for every classic writing form—the sentence, the citation, the argument, the resume—there is a counterpart on the Web that holds the same…
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The Big Picture is in Our Heads
We bought one of the girls a train for Christmas and it brought together a lot of ideas for me. First, it was no surprise she asked for it. If the oldest…
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