Title Text:There’s this idea that emoji are bad for communication because they replace ambiguity and nuance with a limited set of preselected emotions, but it doesn’t really survive a collision with real-world usage of the thinking face or upside-down smiley.

Title Text:This restaurant is great! I was feeling really sick, but then I ate there and felt better!

Title Text:The captain has turned on the ‘fasten seat belt’ sign.

Title Text:”You know lightning, right? When electric charge builds up in a cloud and then discharges in a giant spark? Ask me why that happens.” “Why does tha–” “No clue. We think it’s related to the hair thing.”

Title Text:This place has so many demonyms. Northlanders. Fair Folk. Honey Barons. Lake Dwellers. Treasurers. Swamp Watchers. Dream Farmers. Wellfolk. Rockeaters. Forgotten Royals. Remote Clients. Barrow-Clerks. The People of Land and Sky.

Title Text:For the final exam, you take a screenshot showing off all the work you’ve done in the class, and it has to survive being uploaded, thumbnailed, and re-screenshotted through a chain of social media sites.

Title Text:Each particle also has a password which allows its properties to be changed, but the cosmic censorship hypothesis suggests we can never observe the password itself鈥攐nly its secure hash.