What are the most frequently used words in the English language? You’re about to find out. In 1965, researcher Mark Mayzner published Tables of Single-letter and Digram Frequency Counts for Various ...

When my older son was barely two and a half years old, he was able to distinguish between automobile brands. From time to time, he’d ask me what brand a specific car he was looking at was, and and I ...

Most of us know that “the” is the most common word in the English language. But what are some other high-frequency words, both long and short? This amazing animated data bubble visualization by ...

I mentioned two days ago the very nice tool for mapping word-use in presidential inaugural addresses, created by Jonathan Feinberg of IBM. I should have mentioned the underlying open-ended tool Wordle ...

A visualization of thousands of Wikipedia edits that were made by a single software bot. Each color corresponds to a different page. * Image: Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, and Kate Hollenbach ...

Patterning refers to the meaningful process of organizing, coding, and categorizing information in the brain. It is through the patterns constructed and stored in neural networks that our brains ...

Too often, the words used to describe women are discriminatory. They’re also, upon close inspection, absurd. That’s the simple truth Anna Friemoth brings to light in her ongoing series, “Words for ...

Faizan Zaki, a seventh-grader from Allen, Texas, won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee. He shared that he visualizes typing words on a keyboard to help him spell them. Zaki said his dream of ...