“Miners refuse to work after death,” screamed the headline in a newspaper. So would I, one might well have thought, if I were dead! But the story sought to highlight a safety controversy at a mine: ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Sensory information flowing into our brains ...

An effective communicator conveys his/her message effectively and there is no ambiguity in his/her utterances. If the meaning intended is the same as the meaning conveyed by the writer/speaker and the ...

For example, the following sentence lends itself to two possible interpretations: (1) Old men and women left the theater. What does “old” modify in this sentence? “Men” or “men and women”? In other ...