Anton Chekhov's Story about a Man Looking for Comfort

Someone told me the other night about an Anton Chekhov story called "The Lament." It is a simple story about an old man who drives a horse and ...

Police Share Tea After Lonely Couple's Call

Year ago Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline performed a song together entitled, "Have You Ever Been Lonely?" It appears someone has.

"What else could we do but ...

Let's Have Conversations

Terry Gross has done over 13,000 interviews in her life and is the host of "Fresh Air." She is an expert on talking to people, which is becoming ...

Stop Googling and Start Talking

We get it, we are so connected to each other that we carry around phones in our pockets that are always digitally connected to other people. But did you ...

Dial 0 if You're Nervous

Have you ever gotten nervous before having to make a phone call? You aren't alone. According to an article on Yahoo Finance, "Millennials have ...

The Rise of Overconfidence

Have you ever been listening to someone blab on about something you know nothing about, yet you still try to contribute to the conversation? Welcome to ...

80 Percent of Our Words Are Shared with Five People

According to a study published in Scientific American, we each speak an average of 16,000 words per day. We like to imagine ourselves conversing with ...

Delete Your Conversations From Other People's Phones

Have you ever sent a text message that you regretted? Wouldn't it be awesome if there was an app you could download that actually lets you delete your ...

Taco Bell's Tricky Language

Dan Jurafsky, a professor of linguistics at Stanford, revealed in a recent interview some interesting ways that Taco Bell uses language in their menus: ...

The Old-Fashioned Phone Call's Not Dead Yet

For many people today, the phone call is dead—replaced by text messages, email, Twitter messages, and other "asynchronus" (not at the ...