Words
Health & Medicine
Research
How our words reveal shifting attitudes to mental health
The largest-ever study of mental health terminology shows how language has changed over 45 years, reflecting our changing attitudes toward mental illness and disability
Arts & Culture
The difficulty with measuring creativity
How do you go about measuring the multifaceted and unique human quality that is creativity without killing it completely? New research aims to do just that
Arts & Culture
I don’t think that word means what you think it means
Words change their meaning over time, but it can be hard to keep up, especially when some words evolve to mean the opposite of their original definition