I should probably give up on slamming the NYT for its fussy modesty in dealing with taboo vocabulary, but this one struck me as particularly silly: from “Pardon Me! A Fearless Look at Our Bodies’ Mundane Functions” by James Gorman (a review of Robert R. Provine’s Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping and Beyond) in the Science … Continue reading New NYT modesty