What are your three wishes? — Genies are firmly ingrained in our collective pop-cultural minds. A big reason for that is movies such as The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and Aladdin (1992 and 2019), and TV shows like The Twilight Zone and, of course, I Dream of Jeannie. The depictions of genies in these works of…

Hoarding can also occur in our heads — More than a century ago — in 1905, to be precise — famed physicist and future Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein published four papers in Annalen der Physik, the prestigious German scientific journal. One of the papers, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, focused on special relativity and introduced the…

0 is a figure, after all… — I joined Medium on January 19, 2021. I remember that day like it was six weeks ago. It was a chilly Tuesday afternoon in Madrid, Spain. Traces of snow from the biggest blizzard in five decades still covered the streets. …

Another twofer this week… that’s twofer twofers! — Today’s Spelling Bee letters are C, E, F, N, O, U, and center L (all words must include L). This pangram, or combination of seven letters, has appeared twice before. August 25, 2022 (center letter O) April 11, 2021 (center letter E) Now, Silly Little Dictionary! was around on both…

Negative effect of negative people — Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary? With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New…

The pay-to-lay system — Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary? With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New…

The life of sweets — Today’s New York Times Spelling Bee game says:

Even brighter smiles at night! — Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary? With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New…

We go back twice today! Double the fun! — Today’s Spelling Bee letters are E, G, H, N, T, U, and center O (all words must include O). This pangram, or combination of seven letters, has appeared three times before. September 17, 2022 (center letter G) November 3, 2021 (center letter N) January 29, 2021 (center letter T) Now…