Where to Start With Jane AustenFrom sparkling dialogue to surprise character traits, wit, humor and tragedy, this is the time to appreciate Austen.
The Pop-up Megacity: How the Kumbh Mela Prepared for 660m Hindu DevoteesFor 45 days the floodplains of Prayagraj, a city in Uttar Pradesh known as Allahabad until 2018, were a churning sea of humanity.
Texas Schools Have Leaned on Uncertified Teachers to Fill Vacancies. Lawmakers Want to Put a Stop to It.Underprepared teachers have been tied to student learning losses. But amid a teacher shortage crisis, school leaders fear the restrictions will lead to fewer instructors in their classrooms.
Legacy of the AngelsWhen medieval scholars sought to understand the nature of angels, they unwittingly laid the foundations of modern physics
The Common Genius of Lincoln and EinsteinThe president and the physicist teach us a lesson about moral genius.
An All-Female Society, Pushed to ExtremesNovels about women’s communities tend toward utopian coexistence or ruthless backbiting. The Unworthy does something more interesting. A collective of women ought to have a name, the way a mass of finches are a “charm,” or parrots a “pandemonium.
Ogres are coolThe hyper-courtly Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote a verse satire in the mid-1530s that begins: ‘My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin,/They sang sometime a song of the field mouse.
ChatGPT for students: learners find creative new uses for chatbotsBy the time her comprehensive exams rolled around in August 2024, Adriana Ivich had done nearly everything she could to prepare herself.
The School Car Pickup Line Is a National EmbarrassmentI teach a lot of international students about the US education system and our schools. Whenever they go into our schools for the first time, one of the things that always shocks them is the school car pickup traffic lines.
Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave ShipsOn the way down I saw nothing. The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows, darkening, about twenty feet below, to a sickly emerald. I followed a rope strung between a buoy and a stake in the seabed, pausing occasionally to pinch my nose and adjust my sinuses to the pressure.
A Staggering Excavation Has Rewritten the Fall of the Roman EmpireInteramna Lirenas has turned out to be far more than a “backwater town” of the Roman Empire.
The Time of the WhitesHuman history , at least of the settled and sedentary, begins with the occupation of land. Animals are kept out or enclosed with fences. Plants and trees are cut back, dug up, selectively cultivated.
'I was duped into leaving London for school in Ghana - but it saved me'When my mother told me at the age of 16 that we were going from the UK to Ghana for the summer holidays, I had no reason to doubt her. It was just a quick trip, a temporary break - nothing to worry about. Or so I thought.
What Made the Irish Famine So DeadlyIn the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food.
Roman Catholic Apologetics Is Surging Online. Intended Audience? Protestants.In recent years, several notable Protestant converts to Roman Catholicism have made waves online. Influencers like Cameron Bertuzzi of Capturing Christianity, Candace Owens, Joshua Charles, and Eva Vlaardingerbroek crossed the Tiber from various expressions of Protestantism.