In today’s hyper-competitive world, gaining an edge can be as simple as tweaking the verb tense you use. A small hack in how ...

Picture a small child saying: "Can’t, shan’t, won’t!" They are using modal verbs to show their feelings and attitude to something. Maybe they are refusing to go to bed or eat their peas.

Some languages like Mandarin Chinese don’t have verb tenses but express time in ... that will give us life here in the arena. Using the present tense can give the writing an almost cinematic ...

There was a time when a great video game just needed to be fun. In the days before 4K screens and season passes, it was all ...

Wordle #1300, which appears in today, January 9‘s edition of the New York Times, can now be solved, and the readers are ...

For a lot of us, that's a hard question to answer if you've not been actively keeping score or if you don't want to spend the ...

Connections is a game from the New York Times that challenges you to find the association between words. It sounds easy, but ...

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Wordle, a popular word puzzle game created by Josh Wardle, challenges players to guess a five-letter word within six attempts ...

Talking to yourself is a normal and common behavior. Whether internal or spoken aloud, most people engage in self-talk regularly. When it’s positive and supportive, self-talk can be a healthy way to ...

One of the joys of reading for me is “discovering” new writers. Recently while reading "Lincoln and the Preachers," I read a reference to a speech by Robert G. Ingersoll.

Many gun safety advocates see the device as a simple solution to foreseeable tragedy — one that would work automatically, with no user effort or knowledge required. But gunmakers don’t have to ...