Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. David Kindness is a Certified Public ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) ...

The English language is full of words that seem overstuffed with unnecessary letters, feel like they should be spelled a different way, or just don't make sense. Here are some of our favorites, ...

Readers had plenty to say after Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Jimmy Fallon took a shot at pronouncing every city and town in Massachusetts on “The Tonight Show” Tuesday night — especially whether their ...

Figure 1: Spectral representations of complex sounds that produce a pitch perception of 62.5 Hz. In this study, we used positron emission tomography (PET) to address the question of where in the ...

Readers Say Readers judge Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Jimmy Fallon’s Mass. town pronunciations A majority of respondents said their hometown passed the test — but Quincy (and a few other classics) ...