“I’m happy that the absurd proportion of my legs to my body fills you with a dim echo of what you used to call joy. I would be thrilled if your delight at me...

Ankh-Morpork, the beautifully chaotic city-state where many of the late Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld novels take place, has a beggars’ guild. It’s basically a protection racket: if you don’t wa...

Education is being polarized by advocates on the left and right, but students' learning should not be limited to mastering skills that lead to economic output.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained.

“For decades, America has been trapped in an outdated framework called ‘democracy,’ wherein candidates campaign for votes, the ballots are counted, and whoev...

New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.

Higher education faces looming threats from every direction. Dwindling enrollments. The demographic cliff. The enduring myth that professors have t...

We have no money for copies. But our Live, Love, Learn program now includes two Undergraduate Scribe Fellows. We have no money for raises, but we’v...