People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute…
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Teachers Are Trying to Make AI Work for Them
Jennifer Goodnow, who teaches English as a second language in New York, feels similarly. She now plugs complex readings, like essays or book excerpts, into ChatGPT and asks it to create separate versions for advanced and beginner students, with…
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Symptom Monitoring Improves Quality of Life for Clinical Trial Participants
Quality of life (QOL), a measure of an individual’s overall enjoyment of life, stands as an essential consideration for healthcare professionals conducting clinical trials. When evaluating the benefits of…
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Pazuzu figurine: An ancient statue of the Mesopotamian ‘demon’ god who inspired ‘The Exorcist’
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Name: Pazuzu statue
What it is: A bronze figurine
Where it is from: The Assyrian Empire
When it was made: The Neo-Assyrian period, circa 900 to 600 B.C.
This small, bronze figurine is the best-known depiction of the Mesopotamian god…
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Physics – Skyrmions as Active Matter
• Physics 18, 146
Pairs of skyrmions—tiny whirlpools that emerge in some magnetic materials—might be able to self-propel, a behavior reminiscent of that of active-matter systems such as motile bacteria.
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Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs
This is largely in line with the work of another psychologist, Robert Rescorla, whose work in the ’70s and ’80s influenced both Wasserman and Sutton. Rescorla encouraged people to think of association not as a “low-level mechanical…
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Tech in the Classroom: A History of Hype and Hysteria
Adoption by schools: Apple played a crucial role in getting computers into classrooms, in part by promoting legislation to offer tax breaks to computer manufacturers that donated computers to schools, museums, and libraries. In the early 1980s,
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What Do Kids Actually Think About AI?
If you try to get AI to do all your work, it’s definitely detrimental, because then you lose your skills to write and read. It can make students more lazy. But that’s your loss, if you’re using it to cheat on your work.
I feel like nowadays…
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How Microschools Became the Latest Tech Mogul Obsession
Elon Musk had a question: “Does anybody have any experience with first principles analysis?” He was speaking to a room full of kids, many of whom knew Musk as the CEO of companies that made rockets and cool-looking cars—and as the founder…
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What New Human Ancestor Has Been Discovered, and How a Virus Outbreak in China Could Reach the U.S.
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some of the latest science news.
First, a public health update from one of our colleagues…
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