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When Star Wars met Lego 10 years ago, it seemed like just another licensing deal in Lucasfilm's endless chain of merchandising. But, the marriage produced an entire pocket universe all its own where ...

The Visual Dictionary web site catalogs photographs of words (from signs to graffiti to tattoos) and makes them searchable by the word they contain. While it's still fairly young, the Visual ...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has been in theaters for a few weeks now but we've yet to get the answers to the Skywalker Saga finale's lingering questions we so desperately need. Thankfully, the ...

A new study finds that skilled readers do not rely on sounds when reading but rather retrieve words purely from a “visual dictionary.” The research, conducted by neuroscientists at Georgetown ...

People have a lot of opinions about The Rise of Skywalker, good and bad, but one thing is absolutely certain: This thing is dense. There’s so much planet-hopping and myth-building, the film is ...

Connect words with images and find the name of the whatchamacallit on the tip of your tongue with Merriam-Webster's Visual Dictionary. The site is sort of like a reverse 20 questions (because you ...

We all know the problems Wikipedia had in the past over misinformation and their efforts to correct errors in their community-generated information. Now from Merriam-Webster, a fairly well-respected ...