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Lego just released audio and Braille instructions. They did it because of a blind man who never gave up.
Hannah Natanson, WashingtonPost.com Matthew Shifrin first discovered Legos when he thrust his hands deep inside a crate crammed full of the tiny brick ... -
A Mathematician Has Created a Teaching Method That’s Proving There’s No Such Thing as a Bad Math Student
Jenny Anderson, getpocket.com, originally published 02.15.2017 by Quartz Math is a notoriously hard subject for many kids and adults. There is a gender gap, a ... -
The 20 Most Influential Young Curators in the United States
Alexxa Gotthardt, Artsy.net The role that curators play, like the art they care for, is constantly evolving. As culture shifts, moving with ... -
The Liberal Arts May Not Survive the 21st Century
Adam Harris, The Atlantic For many years, Wisconsin had one of the finest public-university systems in the country. It was built on an idea: that the ... -
High Schools to TikTok: We’re Catching Feelings
Teens love the app, and now it’s getting the stamp of approval with teacher-approved clubs. Did school just get … fun? Taylor Lorenz, The New York ... -
Marketers Wanted a New Generation to Target, Hence Alphas
Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED Ryan ToysReview, a YouTube channel helmed by a spritely 7-year-old, does product placement better than Michael Bay. Every moment of every video ... -
These young scientists will shape the next 50 years of Moon research
Alexandra Witze, Nature Half a century after Apollo, Nature profiles five researchers who are shaking up lunar exploration. Read more -
James Holzhauer’s ‘Jeopardy!’ Greatness, in Charts
Brian Barrett, WIRED James Holzhauer returns to Jeopardy! tonight, following a well-deserved two-week break for the Teacher’s Tournament. We’ve written before about what ... -
Irving Penn
Excerpt from https://irvingpenn.org/biography: Irving Penn was one of the twentieth century’s great photographers, known for his arresting images and masterful printmaking. Although he was celebrated as ... -
These are the animals that went extinct in 2018
Mark Kaufman, Mashable With the end of 2018 comes the near-certain reality that some critters, after millions of years of existence on Earth, are gone for ...
