Louise Erdrich was getting help with her computer when her daughter discovered something on the hard drive. A short story.

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University of Pennsylvania researchers tweaked an AI tutor to tailor the difficulty of practice problems for each student.

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Gary Anderson was studying architecture at the University of Southern California when he saw the poster. It was 1970, and environmentalism was in the air, along with a broader antiestablishment vibe. ...

A conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah about the religious origins of social theory and his recent book Captive Gods. The philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah’s latest book, Captive Gods: Religion and ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

In 2005, physicists David Frame and Myles Allen were on their way to a scientific conference in Exeter, UK, and had been, in Frame’s words, “fiddling about” with a climate model to prepare for their ...

Unless you worked for Ford’s plastics, paint and vinyls division in the 1980s, you probably don’t know the name Jim Moylan. But you might well know the idea that made this unknown engineer who ...

James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, has passed away. Moylan was a Ford interior trim designer who came up with ...