It's a word you probably don't use all that often, so let's break it down. It's a noun and according to Merriam-Webster it means: "a throwing of a person or thing out of a window." If you live in the ...

One of San Francisco's most noticed works of public art, Brian Goggin's "Defenestration" (1997), has begun to show its age. Several of its components - lamps, tables, beds, couches and chairs pitching ...

At around 8 a.m. Tuesday, artist Brian Goggin rode a boom lift two floors up from Sixth Street, pulled a yellow easy chair out a window of the Hugo Hotel, and the deconstruction of "Defenestration" ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- This is the last weekend to take in a San Francisco landmark. For 17 years, furniture has crawled out of the vacant Hugo Hotel at Sixth and Howard. On Tuesday it will come down.

‘It is difficult to get Artificial Intelligence to understand something, when the Research and Development funding it depends upon its not understanding it’– Paraphrase of Upton Sinclair. This small ...

Do we need a word for doing it in reverse? By John Hodgman David writes: My friend Tim and I watch a lot of action films. We agree on the definition of defenestration, but can’t agree on what ...

In this episode, Paul Rosenzweig brings us up to date on the debate over renewing section 702, highlighting the introduction of the first credible "renew and reform" measure by the House Intelligence ...

600 years ago, an angry crowd stormed Prague’s New Town Hall and threw its councillors out of the window. The event, which has since become known as the First Defenestration of Prague, is often seen ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. If you paid attention in history class, and if your history class covered it, you might recall the context. As the OED says ...