How to Avoid Psyching Yourself Out Before a Big Test
It’s an unfortunate fact that the more we dread an upcoming test, the more that intimidation can prevent us from succeeding. Stress often leads to procrastination,...
Kansas Parent Calls On Library to Segregate Books Featuring Transgender Characters
A public library in Andover, Kansas, is considering a request to move books featuring transgender characters from the children’s section. In a written statement to the...
What’s new in Scratch 3.0, a programming language designed for kids
In 2013, the MIT Media Lab started creating a new version of Scratch, a graphical, block-based programming language used by tens of millions of kids to...
Fitbit Will Let Users Share Data with All of Us, A Crowdsourced Medicine Research Project
Fitbit is one of the leading fitness wearable manufacturers on the planet, and now it’s going to let users share their data with the All of...
Poet Mary Oliver Has Died
Mary Oliver has died. The poet, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1984 and a dozen other awards and honorary doctorates over the years, died...
Nepantla and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Queer of Color Legacy
Sitting in an undergraduate Chicanx/Latinx Literature course, about seven years ago, is the first time that I heard Gloria Anzaldúa’s name. I was studying under another...
How Adventuring Along’s Joe and Ali Olson Earn and Spend Credit Card Points
Welcome back to Good Points, a weekly Q&A about credit card points, the people who collect them, and where they take us. This week’s guests are...
A Medievalist’s Guide to Magic and Alchemy in A Discovery of Witches
For a medievalist like myself, it doesn’t get much better than Deborah Harkness’s A Discovery of Witches. Both the internationally bestselling trilogy and the newly adapted...
How an IT support certificate transforms careers
A man who never finished college from Nebraska, a U.S. Army medical specialist from Kentucky and a mother of five from California. They’re three different people...
The Best Coffee Gear to Start Making a Delicious Brew
If you’re ready to move on from subpar coffee in the morning and want to start making a worthwhile delicious cup of joe, here’s some coffee...
