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Explore the differences between 'madding' and 'maddening', along with pronunciation tips and meanings of 'splendiferous' and 'penalise'.

The epic Kalevala relates ancient tales, mainly from the Karelia region, and has become a cornerstone of Finland’s cultural ...

Word of the Day: Quiddity meaning is the essential nature of something. It answers the question, what makes a thing what it is. Quiddity pronunciation is KWID-ih-tee. The word comes from Latin ...

No matter where one falls on the Jewish landscape, everyone — even children — bears a responsibility to teach others ...

​While experiences differ, practitioners and researchers alike observe a pattern of gradual changes, physical relaxation, mental clarity, emotional balance and a quieter internal landscape that ...

Tourette’s syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder tied to disruptions in the brain circuits that regulate movement and habit formation. The disorder starts in childhood and is characterized by ...

Examining the difficulties in training LLMs to handle contemporary creative writing styles. Julia Cameron, a renowned American writer, argues in her book The Artist’s Way that creativity is not an ...

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Five years previously he'd walked out on the band he'd started with Mark Hoppus in high school: now Blink-182 had just played the biggest headline show of their career to an estimated 100,000 people.

Billboard caught up with the newly minted Grammy winner after his big moment. Read the full interview.

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