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Iceland Built 1,756 Wheelchair Ramps in the Past 4 Years. Why Can’t Other Countries Do That?Haraldur “Halli” Thorleifsson has helped build thousands of ramps across Iceland. Now, he wants to bring accessibility to other countries.
The New Marriage of UnequalsWomen are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman.
Indian Man Struggles With ₹40 Lakh Education Loan After Failing to Secure a Job in the US: ‘We’re on the Edge’An Indian graduate shared his debt struggles after failing to secure a US job post-study, leaving him with a ₹40L loan.
What Caused Myanmar and Thailand Earthquake and How Big Was It?Death toll rises in both countries after tectonic plates rub sideways against each other along Sagaing fault
Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial AgainThe administration’s targeting of international students is a return to a disgraced tradition of xenophobic anti-intellectualism.
The Timeless Magic of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities at 50I’m six years old and watching my two older brothers roll dice on the orange linoleum tiles in the basement. If I move a muscle, I’ve been warned—if I speak so much as a single word—my banishment to the upstairs will be reinstated.
Take a Cold Bathew Fthings expose the potential for illogicality, hypocrisy and cruelty within the Christian tradition more clearly than its attitude to sex.
What Shakespeare Got Right About PTSDOthello has long been understood as a play about race, love, and jealousy. But it is also a play about soldiers experiencing what we now call post-traumatic stress.
Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going ViralBut in the past two years, a growing number have gone a step further and violently attacked the targets in their videos, a New York Times analysis has found.
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.
Worse than Orphans‘The human family’, Henry Drummond wrote in The Ascent of Man (1894), is ‘the starting-point and threshold of the true moral life’. Man carries ‘old wild blood in his veins’, while woman makes a home: her passivity is ‘the embryo of patience’.
How to live an intellectually rich lifeGo to the main page of Wikipedia. Click any link that leads to a Wikipedia entry. For that page, click the first hyperlinked word in the main text. Keep doing it - Your journey will look something like this.
We Should Have Seen What Sally Mann Saw 40 Years AgoIt was 1988. My first year as a high school English teacher in a girls’ school had just ended. I was heading to Alabama for my wedding when the head of the school called me to his office to announce a temporary reassignment for the following fall. “Ms.