Reviews Virtual Words by Jonathon Keats Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Science News November 5, 2010 at 10:09 am Twenty-eight essays trace the births and lives (sometimes short) of blog, qubit and other science- and technology-inspired words. VIRTUAL WORDS BY JONATHON KEATS Oxford Univ., 2010, 177 p., $19.95.