When Amazon and Barnes & Noble announced that they would soon allow e-books (and free e-book sharing) on computers and mobile devices, it sent me into a quixotic tizzy about the future of e-readers.

Albert Einstein is known for his haircut, theories of relativity and belief that “the fact that [the physical world] is comprehensible is a miracle.” What he meant was that via science, math and our ...

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...