Unruly, undigital, and fiercely communal — the Gallagher Bros.' U.S. swing is everything our techno-entertainment world isn't. Which is exactly why we need them. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, ...

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Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

The first week of the NFL preseason is in the books, leading to a slew of rational, not-wild-at-all opinions as people get their first taste of football for the 2025 season. There are a lot of things ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

About six months into the second term of President Donald Trump, Republicans and Democrats are making conflicting and often misleading assessments of the Trump administration’s impact on inflation and ...

In “Blood Harmony,” Barry Mazor tells the story of the brothers who left an indelible mark on the history of popular music. Somewhere near the end of Barry Mazor’s fascinating “Blood Harmony: The ...

Adam Aleksic has somehow managed to make linguistics cool. His rapid-fire videos have attracted an audience of millions across the social media universe. A Harvard graduate with a linguistics degree, ...

The second core update of the 2025 year, the June 2025 core update, is now done rolling out and complete. It started on the last day of June, June 30, 2025 and completed about 16 days and 18 hours ...

LinkedIn rolled out an algorithm change that puts some older posts at the top of the feed. LinkedIn told BI the change, which happened in mid-June, aims to balance recency with relevance. LinkedIn ...