How to self-host your OpenClaw environment on a VPS server

A step-by-step guide to self-hosting OpenClaw on a VPS using Hostinger, with security tips, hardware requirements, and ...
CNN

Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis. The marks, found on 260 artifacts ...
The Atlantic

Does Writing Have to Be Hard?

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...
Time

What to Say Instead of ‘I Hope This Email Finds You Well’

Several decades and thousands of emails later, Naomi Baron can still pinpoint the moment she first encountered what has since become the cockroach of email openers—indestructible, omnipresent, and ...
Game Rant

How to Write Books in Heartopia

Umama Ali spent more time as a kid arguing with his brother over who caused the most chaos in GTA Vice City than doing homework, and he’s been unapologetically hooked on games ever since. That ...
The Atlantic

My Students Write Their Papers Backwards

In my high-school English classes, I often tell my students that they write their papers backwards: They devise a thesis and then look for evidence to support it. They’ll find what they want to see, I ...
Polygon

Brandon Sanderson shares writing tips to stay productive, professional, and 'progress-motivated'

January is traditionally a month for starting projects, trying new things, and working to break bad habits — particularly anything that gets in the way of self-improvement or productivity. Polygon ...
YourTango

People Who Still Write Everything Down By Hand Usually Have These 4 Increasingly Rare Traits

As time goes by, it seems like there is less and less of a need to write things down by hand. Letters are no longer necessary when you can easily text or email someone. Things you need to remember can ...
Slate

What We Learned From Our Biggest Parenting Triumphs and Fails

The ‘Rents reflect on 2025 and look ahead to what they hope to take into the new year with them. Plus! Poetry! If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone ...
Lifehacker

How I Turned My Laptop Into a Distraction-Free Writing Device

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

How One Professor Demystifies Writing

I f there’s been one constant in the nearly 30 years Kerry L. Beckford has been teaching, it’s this: College students aren’t particularly excited to take a required composition course. So Beckford, a ...