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  • Why I Gave Up Latin, and How It Changed My Life

    Why I Gave Up Latin, and How It Changed My Life17

    In the homeschool arena where I grew up, knowledge of Latin was considered the hallmark of a well-educated child. As a mother who now is immersed in homeschool and private school social circles, I hear Latin’s praises sung on a regular basis, especially, and understandably, in those families and groups with classical approaches to learning.

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  • Why You Should Talk to People You Disagree With About Politics

    Why You Should Talk to People You Disagree With About Politics9

    If you talked to friends or family about politics over Thanksgiving, you might not have changed each other’s minds. But don’t be discouraged – and consider talking with them again as the holiday season continues. As a scholar of political dialogue, for the past decade I have been studying conversations between people who disagree about politics. What

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  • The Antidote to Election Grief? Patriotism.

    The Antidote to Election Grief? Patriotism.4

    As we ride the wave of the tumultuous 2024 presidential election into the next four years, millions of Americans are left wondering: What happens now? Political tensions and the never-ending doomsaying news cycle seem to surround us on all sides. Regardless of which candidate’s bubble you filled in on your ballot, the uncertainty and polarization

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  • Charlie Brown’s Christmas Message to America

    Charlie Brown’s Christmas Message to America2

    Simple, timeless, and unpretentious, “A Charlie Brown Christmas Special” became a holiday tradition since its first airing on Dec. 9, 1965. Its beginnings were simple: a television producer approached cartoonist Charles Schulz with a general idea for an animated special featuring the Peanuts gang. Soon, the idea for a Christmas special, written by Schulz himself,

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  • Are AI Poems Better Than Human-Written Poems?

    Are AI Poems Better Than Human-Written Poems?4

    A recent study published in Scientific Reports uncovered that the average reader couldn’t tell the difference between AI-generated poetry and human-written poetry. Most of these readers even preferred the AI works to the human ones. In the study, researchers asked Open AI’s ChatGPT-3.5 to write poems in the style of famous poets such as Walt

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  • To V*ccinate or Not? Seeking Cooler Heads in the V*x Conversation

    To V*ccinate or Not? Seeking Cooler Heads in the V*x Conversation3

    Would you like to spend your evenings pulling out your hair? Do you have a sadistic streak? Have you ever considered Chinese water torture as a pastime? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then researching both sides of the vaccine debate may be just the thing for you. Talk about a contentious and

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