Mathematics has been one of humanity’s most creative endeavors, akin to painting and poetry. Now, mathematicians are trying to save it from the brute force of AI.

by Jonathon Podolsky

Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says

How Accreditation Functions in Higher Education

Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...

Most of the last rural spaces in Montgomery County, Maryland, are protected in what’s known as the Agricultural Reserve. Businesses there are required to support or promote interest in agriculture. Th...

It's worth asking what it would take to actually democratize AI at each layer of the stack, writes Ellen P. Goodman, starting with compute.

What started as an environmental protest in Albania related to Trump's son-in-law's business ventures became something bigger — addressing long-standing corruption, the right to information and transp...

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Sources: DOE composite score files (AY18–19 through AY22–23); Antioch audited financial statements FY2023–FY2025 (Brady Ware & Schoenfeld)…

St. John’s College is consolidating its leadership structure amid enrollment challenges and a $5 million deficit.

Three Institutions & Twenty Years of the Same Failures

The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first

Along an unassuming block of East Baltimore Street, a row of classic Baltimore storefront houses features woodwork painted salmon pink, turquoise, and pistachio. Their plate glass windows reveal handm...

A global, radically participatory research initiative, where data workers themselves become community researchers, identifying urgent issues, formulating their own questions, and choosing the formats ...

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