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The Benefits of No-Tech Note Taking

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I quibble with The Chronicle headline writer's notion that paper & pencil are "no-tech," but hand-written notes are valuable. Students…

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If you've ever wanted to see the reigns of Henry VIII's wives represented in a pie chart, the New Statesman…

I’m a 12-year-old girl. Why don’t the characters in my apps look like me?

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I found that when an app did sell girl characters, it charged on average $7.53, which is a lot in…

Local News in a Digital Age

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Local TV news is the "most visible presence" in the news space, according to a Pew study, though most TV…

Downsides of being a convincing liar

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Test subjects whose test papers "accidentally" included the answer key had an inflated sense of how well they would do…

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You see less than 20 color nuances: you are a dichromats, like dogs, which means you have 2 types of…

The secret life of a public library security guard

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This made me think of a college friend who regularly Facebooks anecdotes about his job as a librarian, and a…

Notes on watching “Aliens” for the first time again, with a bunch of kids

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"This movie has so many cliches in it," a boy said when Colonial Marines disembarked the drop ship and made…

Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

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Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first…