curmudgeonly

adjective / ker-muhj-uhn-lee / curmudgeon / curmudgeons / curmudgeonry / curmudgeonliest / curmudgeonlier (Emotions) in a manner fitting a habitually grouchy person Sociologists also say that higher education and training in the scientific method generally make people less gullible. And for better or for worse, so does being in a bad mood. In several experiments, researchers found that when someone is in a good mood, they become more innocent and unsuspecting, while feeling grumpy makes one better at sensing deception. […]

cynosure

noun / sahy-nuh-shoor / cynosures / cynosural (Seeing) something or someone who draws major attention because of their brilliance or guidance The time capsule is a characteristically twentieth-century invention: a tragicomic time machine. It lacks an engine, goes nowhere, sits and waits. It sends our cultural bits and bobs traveling into the future at snail’s pace. At our pace, that is. They travel through time in parallel with the rest of us, at our standard velocity of one second per […]