With Valentine’s day right around the corner you’re undoubtedly being bombarded with ads for flowers, candy, or other gifts to show someone you really care about them. This got us thinking- what is love? Okay okay, that’s not necessarily a question we can answer here, but what we can answer is- how do people talk…
Hearts seem to be everywhere during the month of February—you can hardly walk through a store without seeing dozens of them on decorations, cards, chocolates, and more. But this month also has a more serious association with hearts than just Valentine’s. February is American Heart Month, an effort organized by the American Heart Association (AHA)…
New year, new conferences! Or at least that’s one thing the Veriloguers are excited for in 2017. We’ve asked a handful of colleagues around the office three simple questions: What conference are you excited for? Why are you looking forward to it? What do you hope to learn from it? The 7 Conferences we picked…
According to a survey conducted by the Statistics Brain Research Institute, 41% of Americans usually make New Year’s resolutions. Findings from the same research showed that nearly a quarter of those who made resolutions for 2017 had the goal of “losing weight” or “eating healthier”.
In computer science, thrashing occurs when the process of data transfer prohibits the execution of operations. When your computer is thrashing, it’s perceived as slow, sluggish, on the verge of crashing. Remember when you tried to open that PDF on your older work laptop and you saw Adobe Acrobat launch in your task bar but…
A Linguist’s response to the film Arrival There’s been some hype about the new film Arrival, and some newfound attention to the field of linguistics. Rather than point out all of the inevitable liberty-taking that comes with projecting an everyday life onto the big screen, I wanted to show my appreciation. And the way I’m…
The “opioid epidemic” is a growing problem in the United States. The state of Virginia declared a public health emergency relating to abuse of such substances, Google search data shows a higher rate of searches for the heroin treatment Suboxone than for any other prescription drug in the US, and new articles and studies are…
Very few people saw this coming. You could argue that undecided, silent voters are to blame, or maybe it’s the “overconfidence” of the Democratic party. Sure, those were factors, but it could also be a bit of a chicken and egg phenomenon, as the Dems certainly had confidence in part due to the consistent lead…
When we talk about the drug pipeline, we’re talking about the future. Pipeline drugs are often the newest medical advancements that scientists are still in the process of testing for safety or efficacy. As doctors can’t generally prescribe pipeline drugs, I wasn’t expecting them to come up very often in in-office dialogues. But as I’ve…
The impending return of AMC’s The Walking Dead on October 23rd, with its portrayal of flesh-eating, swarming zombies, or “walkers” as they’ve been coined, has me thinking about how we use that term in our daily lives. Or more specifically, what do patients and physicians actually mean when they say “like a zombie”? Because hopefully…