n. The file extension for a document format that can't be printed. Created by the World Wildlife Fund as a tree-saving alternative to the PDF, the onscreen-only WWF has been denounced by the paper industry as misleading and Orwellian. Culturomics n. The study of memes and cultural trends using high-throughput quantitative analysis of books. The field was born when Google released a database of the 500 billion words published in 5.2 million tomes over the past two centuries.
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