Even though on an intellectual level I have come to terms with the difference in cultural connotations of being selfish, on an emotional level, I still feel uneasy. What exactly stands among the ...

Southern Living magazine once described “y’all” as “the quintessential Southern pronoun.” It’s as iconically Southern as sweet tea and grits. While “y’all” is considered slang, it’s a useful word ...

Many critics consider Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, published in 1821, to be the first explicit exploration of the creative process and drugs. Since then — well, there ...

What are our knees for? The answer should be very simple. They are joints that allow our legs to bend so that we can walk. But the answer is not so simple when we consider some of the cultural ...

HEFEI, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The establishment of the Jiuzhang quantum computer prototype, and the return capsule of China's Chang'e-5 probe touching down on Earth in the early hours of Thursday, ...