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Today, the F-word is routinely used to describe how we feel, how objectionable someone is, what a bad day it is, or simply to wish someone a Happy AF Birthday. We may all frown upon swearing and profanity, but scientist Emma Byrne believes that we wouldn’t have “made it as the world’s most populous primate if we hadn’t learned to swear”. Scientist and author Emma Byrne (Courtesy the subject) The author of Swearing is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language, Byrne did her PhD in Expectation Violation…

In early January, comedian Katt Williams went on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast and took aim at Cedric the Entertainer for stealing “my very best joke.” The bit in question — which involved a pantomime of driving with music blasting — was first performed by Katt in a 1998 appearance on ComicView, then reproduced by Cedric (according to Katt) for his set in Spike Lee’s The Original Kings of Comedy. Cedric called the accusations “revisionist history” on Instagram. We’ve been down this road many…

Model and actor Emily Ratajkowski posed in a series of stylish looks in a new cover interview photoshoot for Vogue Australia. On Monday, she took to Instagram to share pictures of herself from her latest magazine spread and in no time the comments section of her post was filled with compliments. Also read: Emily Ratajkowski says women who get divorced under 30 are ‘chic’ Emily Ratajkowski poses for Vogue Australia. Emily Ratajkowski's Vogue Australia photoshootIn a couple of the pictures she posted Emily…

Credit: Palgrave Macmillan Flinders University and U.K. researchers have analyzed the use of disability-related taboo words to better understand how certain terms are used in the community and shed light on their negative and positive impact on people with disabilities. The use of language is often at the frontline of efforts to…

Marvel will have Daredevil and Echo TV series for next year, so it's about time to start pumping out the comic books in preparation.We are getting a new Daredevil: Born Again TV series. And a new Echo TV series. So, naturally, we are getting a Daredevil & Echo comic book in May from Marvel Comics to give people something to buy in the lead up, or immediately afterwards. And it's by Black Eyed Peas' Taboo as well as oft-collaborator B. Earl and Star Wars artist Phil Noto. "Matt Murdock and Maya Lopez are back…

A formidable list of writers appears in the contents page of To Raise a Fallen People: How Nineteenth Century Indians Saw Their World and Shaped Ours, edited by Rahul Sagar. There’s Mohandas K Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Annie Besant, Salar Jung II, Mahadev Govind Ranade, and T Madhava Rao among others. The book is an anthology featuring extracts from the works of these writers that have been arranged thematically into chapters on topics such as English education, crossing the seas, free…

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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A team of multidisciplinary Western Sydney University researchers have launched a new white paper exploring how workplaces and educational institutions can help break the menstrual taboo. …

by Trish Ruebottom, Madeline Toubiana, Maxim Voronov and Sean Buchanan, The Conversation A growing number of businesses across a wide range of industries are successfully selling voyeurism to their audiences. Credit: Shutterstock…