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olinguito 27 Aug 2013 | 08:49 am
Today’s word brings us the latest cute animal squee and zoology nerdgasm. A bit over a week ago, Kristofer Helgen of the Smithsonian announced the first discovery of a new mammal of the order Carnivor...
sprat 26 Aug 2013 | 08:57 am
Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean, And so betwixt the two of them They licked the platter clean. That nursery rhyme, when I think of it, typically plays in my head to the beg...
radler, shandy 23 Aug 2013 | 08:53 am
One great discovery for me when I visited Munich was radler. I saw it listed on the sign at the beer garden at the Chinesischer Turm (“pagoda”) and, not knowing what it was, had to try it. Once I did,...
trank 22 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
I’m currently reading American Pastoral by Philip Roth. It’s a well-written book that covers in detail a certain part of the American experience, a part that happens in many but not all details to mat...
10 strange drug names 21 Aug 2013 | 08:14 am
As a companion piece to my piece from last week, “How do prescription drugs get such crazy names?”, I also wrote a piece focusing on ten of the crazier generic names for prescription drugs. It’s up li...
chicest 20 Aug 2013 | 07:50 am
She sashayed down the street wearing the nicest smile and the chicest clothes. He saw her sneaking out the back with the cheekiest grin and the chicest hat. She was so sleek and chic. In fact, she w...
anagnorisis 19 Aug 2013 | 09:05 am
There’s a popular “meme” going around on the internet lately, various phrases on the model of “That moment when [striking or unexpected thing X happens]” – often the striking or unexpected thing is a ...
culch 18 Aug 2013 | 08:59 am
I had some oysters yesterday. I don’t know if they were cultured – I didn’t converse with them before eating them – but I would aver in a clutch that they had some culch in their past, back in their s...
Macaronesia 16 Aug 2013 | 08:45 am
Is this a familiar word? Does it look like an error? You might be familiar with Micronesia, a group of islands in the Pacific. There are also Melanesia and Polynesia. But is there a Macronesia? I don...
tiglylglycine 15 Aug 2013 | 08:43 am
Through what baroque anfractuous extraction, concatenation, and conglomeration, by what lexical catabolism and anabolism, do we have the pleasure of seeing this word? Are you sure you can even read it...
