Why 'idempotent'—a 19th-century algebra term—became essential to modern tech, and how it can reshape the way you write ...

Writers and speakers often use techniques that make their words more memorable. Two such devices are alliteration and repetition. Although both add impact, they ...

What's the connection between personal prayer and personal pronouns, apart from the alliteration? People normally pray in the first person singular: “I, me, my, mine, myself.” Credo. “I believe …” But ...

It's hard to have an alliterative name that isn't perfect for baseball. Alliteration, when words begin with the same letter or sound, somehow fits America's Pastime just right. Sal Stewart is just the ...

In Vigdis Hjorth’s novel “Repetition,” a writer recalls a pivotal period of transformation, sex and family crises. By S.C. Cornell S.C. Cornell’s first book, the true story of true story of a murder ...

Why do people often make decisions in the same pattern and choose the tried and tested, even when there are apparently better alternatives? A research team led by Stefan Kiebel, Professor of Cognitive ...

More than a century ago, Pavlov trained his dog to associate the sound of a bell with food. Ever since, scientists assumed the dog learned this through repetition: The more times the dog heard the ...

Repetition is a language feature and cohesive device where the same word or phrase is used several times within a piece of writing. It can help build rhythm and reinforce ideas. The repetition of “on ...

181 years ago today, Edgar Allan Poe’s iconic poem The Raven was first published. Printed in the New York Evening Mirror, it made Poe a household name almost immediately, and turned the writer into a ...

Repetition (doing the same thing repeatedly) is essential for learning and mastering new skills. Task repetition is a key to transforming short-term memories into long-term memories. Repetition is ...

A new anthology rescues the work of an obscure L.A. duo that—with an assist from Harold Budd—channeled the sounds of classical minimalism, new age, and new wave into brooding, hypnotic fantasias. The ...