How’s this for a string of words:

YouTube performance artist-turned-metal singer Poppy is narrating the English version of an audio-only adaptation of a short story from horror manga master Junji Ito. Oh, and it’ll only be available ...
Variety

Quentin Tarantino Has Been Given a ‘Hall Pass’ to Use N-Word in Movies, Says Rosanna Arquette: ‘It’s Just Racist and Creepy’

While discussing her role in “Pulp Fiction” with The Sunday Times, Rosanna Arquette said that Quentin Tarantino has a “hall pass” to use the N-word in his films, which she thinks is “racist and creepy ...
Variety

‘I Swear’ Subject John Davidson Says Tourette’s Tics Are ‘Involuntary’ After Shouting N-Word at BAFTAs: ‘Deeply Mortified if Anyone’ Thinks It Was ‘Intentional’

Tourette’s activist John Davidson, who inadvertently shouted the N-word during the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday night, has released a statement after widespread backlash. Davidson, who first began ...
The Guardian

BBC producers say they ‘didn’t hear’ N-word slur as ‘working in a truck’, following second Baftas apology

Corporation says it is sorry that words spoken involuntarily during ceremony by John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome, were not edited out With N-word incident, Bafta have shot themselves in the ...
The Guardian

It hurt when the N-word was shouted out at the Baftas – but we are also hearing it so much outside

I was disturbed, but I wasn’t shocked. It’s a bigger problem that in these toxic times, so many of us endure this and other slurs in our daily lives At the outset of the Baftas, the gilded crowd ...
Psychology Today

Writing as Sanctuary: Carrying Grief Word by Word

Grief hits hard. It can be sudden — being fired from your job, losing your house to fire, a loved one gone in an instant. Or it can grow slowly, starting with small bits of emotional pain, such as ...
The New York Times

The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It

The term, long considered a slur for those with intellectual disabilities, is seeing a resurgence on social media and across the political right. By Dan Barry and Sonia A. Rao Late last month, a woman ...
Quanta Magazine

String Theory Can Now Describe a Universe That Has Dark Energy

In 1998, astronomers discovered dark energy. The finding, which transformed our conception of the cosmos, came with a little-known consequence: It threw a wrench into the already daunting task of ...
NPR

These dogs can learn new words just by eavesdropping

If you've ever had to spell out words like W-A-L-K or T-R-E-A-T around a dog, you know that some dogs listen in to humans' chitchat and can pick out certain key words. Well, it turns out that some ...
New York Post

Black man acquitted of stabbing white man by Portland jury — after victim said the N-word following the attack

A Portland, Oregon, jury has cleared a black man of assault charges for stabbing a white man — after it was revealed that the victim said the N-word after the attack. Gary Edwards, 43, was found not ...
Rolling Stone

A Complete History of the R-Word, the MAGA Movement’s Favorite Slur

On the evening before Thanksgiving, the president of the United States took to his social media platform to claim in a lengthy screed that immigration was destroying the country. In one spurious ...