HIV “Patient O” Cleared Decades After Shortsighted Spelling Choice
“Patient O” Gaëtan Dugas was wrongly accused of bringing HIV to the US after shortsighted researchers used a naming convention that was misinterpreted.
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Responsibility: How It Changes When Working from Home
Working from home enhances your responsibility. You can take better care of yourself and your family. You’ll also have greater responsibility to coworkers.
3 Ways to Be Funnier Using Language
Everyone wants to have a healthy sense of humor. Here are three tips for using language to be funnier and improve your comedic sensibilities.
101 Synonyms for Love on Valentine’s Day
Woo your valentine with more creative words than just “I love you.”
Adam’s House Cat? The Story Behind the Expression
What’s up with the expression, “I wouldn’t know him from Adam’s house cat”? Where in the world did that saying come from? Robert Hendrickson explains it in The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms. He writes: The Southern expression “I wouldn’t know him from Adam’s house cat” is an attempt to improve upon “I …