An interesting new story caught my eye this week, as it showed how a big an influence new technology is having on the way we speak. The scholars who compile and update the Oxford English Dictionary aren’t known for making changes easily, so we can only imagine the scratching of learned heads as they found themselves forced to admit that LOL deserves a placed in the dictionary. The...

What is keeping you from sleeping at nights right now? Money worries? Problems at work? It might surprise you to find out that a number of people are living their lives under stress generated by Facebook.   It seems that having 24 hour access to details of the activities of our friends isn’t quite as simple as it seemed at first. Researchers from the Napier University...