The great writer Samuel Beckett once said that “words are all we have.” Each day—which includes going to work each morning for many of us—we speak an average of 16,000 words. In fact, during one study ...

If you run a search for “mystery books” on Amazon.com, you’ll get over 213,000 results—and that’s after filtering by genre. What’s more, there are as many as one million books published in the US each ...

Remember the saying, “Fool’s names and fool’s faces always seen in public places”? Let’s face it, it’s absolutely imperative we communicate by the spoken word or the written word. Thankfully we have a ...

The conscious field encompasses everything that one is aware of, and is experiencing, at one moment in time. For example, right now, as I am typing, I am aware of my computer, the smell of coffee, and ...

You sit staring as your cursor blinks, almost mockingly, at the end of everything that you have written. But your work is far from over — in fact, the hard part is only just beginning, for this essay ...

NAOMI S. BARON is a professor of linguistics at American University in Washington. A FEW YEARS BACK, I asked my undergraduates to read Robert Putnam’s “Bowling Alone.” The class was discussing the ...

If you go to this page on my blog, you’ll find an introductory post about the use of artificial intelligence in generating written content, marketing messages, and personalized email. It won’t win any ...