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Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this book, Vogue culture writer Emma Specter writes about her struggles around diet culture, eating disorders, and learning self-acceptance doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Night Eating Syndrome “Night Eating Syndrome (NES) is classified […] The post Five Words From … More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for Enough by Emma Specter first appeared on Wordnik.

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this book, Deb Chachra, Professor of Engineering at Olin College of Engineering, helps us explore the hidden beauty and complexity of the infrastructure we take for granted, and outlines how we can transform and rebuild […] The post Five Words From … How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World by Deb Chachra first appeared on Wordnik.

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this book, Ingrid Robeyns, the Chair in Ethics of Institutions at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University, outlines the principle she calls limitarianism—the need to limit extreme wealth. stagflation The story that most economics professors […] The post Five Words From … Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns first appeared on Wordnik.

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! Hanif Abdurraqib’s 2024 memoir, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, finds him refusing to separate life from its external influences. Structured as a basketball game with quarters, intermissions, and timeouts, Abdurraqib meditates on basketball, […] The post Five Words From … There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib first appeared on Wordnik.

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In White Supremacy is All Around: Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World, Dr. Akilah Cadet shares her life and teachings to show the shadow structures in the United States (and beyond) that […] The post Five Words From … White Supremacy is All Around by Dr. Akilah Cadet first appeared on Wordnik.

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence and Power on the Internet, from technology journalist Taylor Lorenz, explores how social media platforms have changed what it means to create and consume content, who content creators […] The post Five Words From … Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz first appeared on Wordnik.

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! Thinking with Your Hands, from cognitive psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow, will open your eyes to the parallel track of communication that is literally in your hands. Thinking with Your Hands is a fascinating, well-written, and deeply researched […] The post Five Words From … Thinking with Your Hands by Susan Goldin-Meadow first appeared on Wordnik.

Five interesting words from Worn: A People's History of Clothing The post Five Words From … Worn, by Sofi Thanhauser first appeared on Wordnik.

Hwæt the heck? Old English is fundamental to the language we speak every day, yet few people outside medievalists and literature scholars know very much about it. Hana Videen is here to change that: in 2013, she started the Wordhord twitter account, posting one Old English word a day. She’s since expanded her efforts: the […] The post Beyond Beowulf: Q&A with Hana Videen, author of The Wordhord first appeared on Wordnik.

The month of March is upon us, and with it its attendant madness. College basketball is all well and good, but here at Wordnik we’ll be celebrating the first ever LEXICON LUNACY. Here’s how it works:  We’ve taken the 32 most-loved words from 2021 and bracketized them into a single-elimination tournament. Every day this month, […] The post Introducing LEXICON LUNACY 2022! first appeared on Wordnik.