While saying "aboot" instead of "about" is still going strong, Canadian linguists are reporting that youth are losing their "eh." Especially in the cities, young Canadians seem to be replacing the quintessential "eh" with the words "right" or "you know" at the end of sentences. Like other trends, language is a moving target that tends to change at...

eCigarettes have been operating in something of a legal limbo for the past few years as lawmakers struggle to make sense of them, battle corporate action committees, and design rules that regulate this new habit. Trends, as we often say, usually keep getting stronger, until something stops them or changes their direction. Extending strict smoking...

Linguist John McWhorter has been thinking a lot about texting and its effect on language. He is probably right to say that it is changing the way we speak, and think. Humans and technology are evolving together. Each is effecting the other. In a nutshell, McWhorter says that texting is more like speaking than writing, and it's changing the way we...

We are living in a surveillance society with camera's seemingly everywhere tracking our every movement. Our mobile devices are tracked, our license plates are electronically read, and facial recognition software is being used to watch us on streets and online. We can run, but cannot hide. That is the ethos behind the latest gadget in the police...