The 10 toughest Wordle puzzles of 2025—and the states that struggled most

Regular players-of which there are now over 10 million, with a staggering 4.8 billion puzzles are now being solved each ...
The New Yorker

Dyslexia and the Reading Wars

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?
IEEE

MLogNet: A Logarithmic Quantization-Based Accelerator for Depthwise Separable Convolution

Abstract: In this article, we propose a novel logarithmic quantization-based deep neural network (DNN) architecture for depthwise separable convolution (DSC) networks. Our architecture is based on ...
USA Today

Can you guess Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year? Hint: It's messy.

After a full year of hectic news, original trends and nonstop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word: “slop.” On Dec. 15, Merriam-Webster announced “slop” as the 2025 Word of ...
Harvard Business Review

Stop Solving Your Team’s Problems for Them

Sven, a sales leader, received a call from a major customer who was furious. Their order arrived late, the product was damaged, and to top it off, their invoice didn’t reflect the volume discount ...
Tampa Bay Times

Florida to investigate drinking water problems in Apalachicola

State Attorney General James Uthmeier called it “a real failure of leadership at the city level.” The Apalachicola waterfront is seen in 2018. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said Thursday ...
The New York Times

What’s So Problematic About ‘Problematic’?

Do you sense something problematic about the word “problematic”? The way it’s used has changed a great deal in recent years, so much that it can now seem a little shifty. The journey that brought us ...
New Scientist

AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots

Toddlers may swiftly master the meaning of the word “no”, but many artificial intelligence models struggle to do so. They show a high fail rate when it comes to understanding commands that contain ...
Barron's

Fidelity Customers Complain of Log-In Problems During Major Stock Rally

Customers said they couldn’t access their accounts as equities rallied Monday morning on news of an improvement in U.S.-China trade relations. Fidelity’s website was experiencing technical problems, ...
Education Week

The Best Ways to Teach Word Problems So All Students Understand

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...
Science Daily

Study shows addressing working memory can help students with math difficulty improve word problem-solving skills

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...