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Earlier this week I received an email from a reader who was looking for "the best sites and apps for elementary school students." That is a very broad question and I rarely say that any site or app is "the best" because what's best for my students may...

A screenshot of The Literary City (via the San Francisco Chronicle) OAKLAND, Calif. — San Francisco has become a city of gadgets, but it’s always been a city of letters. The town was central to the Beat movement in the 50′s, and the...

So you want to prepare for CAT by studying online? Great! Here is a list of sites that will help you to prepare. There are online sources that will offer you complete material including mock tests. Then there are sources that are specifically for Verbal...

A Visual Thesaurus post by Ben Zimmer is an interesting exploration of the history of a great word, scalawag: My latest column for the Boston Globe tells how Nathaniel Sharpe, a 22-year-old amateur genealogist from a small town in North Dakota near...

It seems everything today has a flavor wheel, that color-coded, adjective-rich circle used to convey the sensory qualities of a product. There's the popular wine wheel, of course, but spices, oysters, beef, chocolate, coffee, bread and cigars also spin...