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"Crazy for Life" Rules for Writing

A Personal Perspective: How to get what’s in your head onto the page.

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Lawmakers and Former Officials Press for Answers on U.F.O.s

Pentagon officials have said most reported incidents involved items like airborne trash, weather balloons and drones.

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Google Isn’t Grad School

Having so much information at our fingertips is useful but seductive, easily fooling us into thinking we know more than we do.

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7 advanced ChatGPT prompt-writing tips you need to know

Let's dive a bit deeper into the arcane art of AI prompt writing. There be secrets here, for those who dare enter.

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Expectations of ‘Perfect’ English Are Elitist and Unrealistic

We are honoring the Top 11 winners of our Student Editorial Contest by publishing their essays. This one is by Megan Luong, age 17.

Research by an HR consultancy shows that individuals with nonnative accents are regularly perceived as less competent, less intelligent, and less trustworthy in professional settings, privileging white populations and stifling marginalized communities from classrooms to courtrooms. This bias extends to African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) and Chicano English dialects, which actually have nuanced and accurate tense systems beyond Standard English’s three tenses. Double negatives, such as “ain’t got none,” and omitted copulas, like “he smart,” are often deemed “uneducated,” despite being natural grammatical structures found in languages worldwide.

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What the Longest Study on Human Happiness Found Is the Key to a Good Life

The Harvard Study of Adult Development has established a strong correlation between deep relationships and well-being. The question is, how does a person nurture those deep relationships?

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Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach

With the rise of the popular new chatbot ChatGPT, colleges are restructuring some courses and taking preventive measures.

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Opinion | The Key to Success in College Is So Simple It’s Almost Never Mentioned

Students must be willing to learn.

The willingness to learn is related to the “growth mind-set” — the belief that your abilities are not fixed but can improve. But there is a key difference: This willingness is a belief not primarily about the self, but about the world. It’s a belief that every class offers something worthwhile, even if you don’t know in advance what that something is.

Unfortunately, big economic and cultural obstacles stand in opposition to that belief.

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Whose Nightmare Are We Living In: Orwell’s or Huxley’s?

Some books, with their seemingly timeless messages and warnings, never go out of fashion. During the COVID pandemic, for example, Albert Camus’s La Peste became so memetic that I had to ban my Keen…