Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background

When President Barack Obama got to Question No. 9 on the 2010 Census, he did what mixed-race respondents nationwide were asked to do: pare down and define his complex racial background by checking all the boxes he saw fit.

UCLA faculty and students volunteer dental services at Remote Area Medical’s week-long free clinic in Los Angeles

Dr. Edmond Hewlett had seen his fair share of teeth over the course of two days of double shifts at the free medical clinic at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, but one set stood out.

American Dialect Society votes “˜Google’ as English word of the decade

While Twitter users busied their fingers last week with tweets about the American Dialect Society’s selection of “Google” as word of the decade, English professor Donka Minkova, a member of the society for 25 years, lamented the fate of a word she believes should have been a contender: Sudoku, the popular Japanese number puzzle.