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Bea teaches English to high-school thugs who mock her love of Wordsworth and Keats

Epstein elucidates the familiar but misunderstood — such as how tides work — along with more obscure but fascinating phenomena like the “Bernoulli sub” and the “artificial aurora” created by hydrogen bombs

forgotten and unattended

reunited under the House of Yang in Manchuria during the Second World War and struggling—both together and individually—to weather poverty

Craftsmen such as Ford and Texas Instruments have become concerned only with the products they have created

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language Raincoast Books Bea teaches English to high-schoolLanguage is humanity's most spectacular open source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast