16-04-18 1. autocorreck verb (of software) cause (text) to contain mistakes by means of an autocorrect or autocomplete function: I wrote a great text to her, but love was autocorrecked to move. [Blend of autocorrect and wreck] 2. parrotocracy noun a hypothet...
16-04-05 A ghostly selfie is sending shivers down the spine of social media users. 一张诡异的自拍照正让社交媒体用户们感到后背一凉。 The spooky image, posted by Twitter user @itsthemans, shows a couple smiling for a selfie taken on a smartphone... completely...
16-03-13 We all have those friends, often they are mere acquaintances. 我们都有这样的朋友,他们一般只是点头之交。 Those people whose lives are played out on social media, every cough and spit of their intimate relationships littering your Facebook timeline....
16-03-02 Jack Kerouac, On the Road Published in 1957, Kerouac's masterpiece captured the voice of America's 'Beat Generation', an iconoclastic group of writers that sprung up in the post-war US as a reaction against mainstream social values:materialism, capi...
16-02-15 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance The most innovative and intriguing entrepreneur of our time is ushering in a future that's as unexpected and disruptive as the erstwhile future that the PC and then the i...
16-02-15 Honeydew by Edith Pearlman Pearlman writes quiet stories about the blips of tumult . She's been writing short stories -- and only short stories -- for decades, chronicling the lives of earnest blue collar workers and whimsical academics. Most of the...
16-02-15 The English: A Portrait of a People ,By Jeremy Paxman In The English, the famously no-nonsense journalist and broadcaster Jeremy Paxman assesses what it means to be English today - specifically English, that is, not Welsh, Scottish, or Irish. In thi...
16-01-29 Octopuses have generally been viewed as solitary creatures--and their color-changing abilities primarily as a means to hide from hungry predators. But, after binge watching more than 52 hours of octopus TV, researchers reporting in the Cell Press jo...
16-01-21 This year's four hundredth anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare is not just an opportunity to commemorate one of the greatest playwrights of all time. It is a moment to celebrate the extraordinary ongoing influence of a man who - to borro...
16-01-20 So-called citizen science has become a significant force in several scholarly disciplines. The phenomenon can be found in both the natural and the social sciences, according to the largest systematic analysis to date on the topic, the results of whi...

