By Tom Chatfield

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Weeding out that artificial idiocy

The banality of phrases like ‘big data’ tends to conceal a semantic switcheroo

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Why paper trumps screen in reading and writing

Some tests show that reading from a hard copy allows better concentration

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Ten best words the web gave English

Hashtags, LOLs, Cupertinos and Scunthorpe problems: From the digital world to yours

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