Education

Shortly after Europeans first came to the remote Pacific territory they called Easter Island, a narrative arose around the people they found there.

Some numbers are so large they are difficult to grasp, yet still necessary.

Over breakfast this morning, I enjoyed a short chat with Mia, my new Spanish study buddy. I went over some of the stuff from my recent lesson and explained what I have learned about the psychology of happiness from a Spanish-language podcast.

Life doesn’t always go the way we want it to, and chances are you will, eventually, end up accidentally flushing something down the toilet. Kids are fascinated with flushing anything from toys to keys, and adults sometimes just have a bad day.

Audrey Hep­burn may not have had the most pro­lif­ic Hol­ly­wood career, but a fair few of her char­ac­ters still feel today like roles she was born to play. Per­haps the same could have been true of the part of Anne Frank, had she not refused to take it up.

Yet many of the students enrolled in her ethics and technology course decided to introduce themselves with ChatGPT. When Fritts, an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, shared the experience on X, formerly Twitter, in a post that has now garnered 3.

Nearly all U.S. adults used to have close friends. In 1990, the share of the population that said they didn’t was low and roughly the same no matter one’s education level: just 2% for people with college degrees and 3% for those without.

‘As they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt related to her, so Plato seems to a reader in New England an American genius. His broad humanity transcends all sectional lines.

Here’s a math problem that everybody can solve: what is one minus one? Zero. So far so good. If we then add a 1, the sum grows, but if we subtract yet another one, we’re back at zero. Let’s say, we keep doing this forever:

The United States is, famously, a linguistic melting pot, with estimates ranging from 350 to as many as 430 different languages being used across the country. Out of all those, English understandably comes out on top nationwide.