As a memento of my visit to the London offices of The Economist I took away a printed copy of the 2013 edition of the magazine’s style book. Its 200 sides of heavy, high-gloss paper are spiral-bound ...

Indie video operators are bracing as the major studios ramp up direct-to-video efforts. By Thomas K. Arnold, The Associated Press Joe Amodei has never been keener on direct-to-video films. As ...

Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is unique among Romance languages in that it allows null direct objects where other Romance varieties would require at least a clitic pronoun. Although the correct syntactic ...

Je mange une pomme - I’m eating an apple. Je is the subject, the person who is doing the action. Une pomme is the object because it is on the receiving end of the action.

The human brain can select relevant objects from a flood of information and edit out what is irrelevant. It also knows which parts belong to a whole. If, for example, we direct our attention to the ...