Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 586 Reading is the gateway for learning, but one-third of elementary school students in the United States do not read at grade level. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are exploring how the design of reading materials affects literacy development. They find that an overly busy page with extraneous images can draw the … Read more
Number of words: 492 It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate.I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a descript person, a woman in … Read more
Number of words: 1,292 Alright. I’d like to start with a small imagination exercise. Imagine you’re sitting at this table, facing me right now. Now, I’m going to ask you to push one of these cards towards me. So please imagine yourself pushing one of these cards towards me. OK, so take the number matching … Read more
Number of words: 52 In 19th century America, saloons offered free lunches with drinks; alcohol sales subsidised food. Over time, freeloaders grew so large that restaurants found the deal unviable. Economists have documented how Chicago became the place where both “free lunches” and “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”, or TANSTAAFL, movements … Read more
Number of words: 668 Australia is well known for having many of the world’s most venomous creatures, ranging from snakes, spiders, jellyfish, centipedes, fish, ticks, bees, and ants. 21 of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world are all from Australia. The country is also home to dangerous plants, like the Australian stinging tree. … Read more
Number of words: 403 The Pentagon’s research and development arm is investigating whether the very equipment meant to save military pilots’ lives on the battlefield is causing them to become disoriented and crash. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding an effort to study the relationship between military electronics and spatial disorientation—a pilot’s … Read more
Number of words: 291 Superhard materials are of the incredible interest in different handy applications, and an increasing number of research efforts are centered around their turn development. A superhard material has two crucial features, hardness, and fracture toughness, representing its resistance to deformation and cracks propagation, respectively. Materials with such properties that would suit … Read more
Number of words: 1,375 We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace. For more about GPT-3 and how this essay was written and edited, please read our editor’s note below.I am not a human. I am a robot. … Read more
Number of words: 991 Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century. And 23 nations – including Spain and Japan – are expected to see their populations halve by 2100. Countries will also age dramatically, with as many people turning 80 as there are being born. … Read more
Number of words: 357 While India had the world’s harshest lockdown, Pakistan barely had one at all. Indian economist Kaushik Basu proposed a theory where India’s lockdown “itself became the source of the virus’s spread”. “By having people huddle together, infecting one another, and then having the same people travel hundreds of miles, the pandemic … Read more
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