The True-Life Horror That Inspired Moby-Dick
Smithsonian Magazine · 11 minThe whaler ‘Essex’ was indeed sunk by a whale—and that’s only the beginning.
The whaler ‘Essex’ was indeed sunk by a whale—and that’s only the beginning.
The volume features 22 letters from author to his family, photographs of the razed city of Dresden, telegrams and news clippings.
The Indus Valley Civilization flourished alongside Mesopotamia and Egypt, but the early society remains shrouded in mystery.
On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese-American writer spoke to one of the last living survivors—and traces connections from Malcolm X to the fight to end nuclear war.
The tradition of a bride garbed in white weaves through two thousand years of history, influenced by the Romans – and Queen Victoria.
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a widely expected outcome, a horrible student was rejected by a college on Monday. The college’s decision to reject the student was unsurprising given his poor performance in such important subjects as science, math, history, and spelling.
For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought. Antoine Chambert-Loir’s initiation into one of math’s oldest secret societies began with a phone call.
What happens when you share your feelings at work. What are the key elements of happiness?
For the first time in six decades, Ralph Greco isn’t in a classroom. He hasn’t retired. He wants to teach. In-person classes are risky, though, for an 88-year-old. So, Mr. Greco has taken a pandemic-driven sabbatical.
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At 21, Ashwin Sah has produced a body of work that senior mathematicians say is nearly unprecedented for a college student. On May 19, Ashwin Sah posted the best result ever on one of the most important questions in combinatorics.
During her college break, the author went all in on solitude—living alone on a Down East island and working for one of the area’s few female skippers. Luna Soley reflects on a time of loneliness, hard work, and natural beauty.
When the University of Texas system teamed up with the Census Bureau to show how much money graduates earn, broken down by major and campus, the idea was to help future students make good choices.
Will Knowland is now the most famous man in England, having been fired from his job at the country’s top school for “questioning radical feminist orthodoxy” in a remote video lesson. However, his cancellation has not been as smooth a process as the perpetrators might have hoped. Mr.
By improving their learning speed, some people achieved seemingly impossible feats. One student finished the MIT computer science curriculum in one year instead of four. Another learned nine languages while touring Europe.
Some people oppose student loan forgiveness because they want others to suffer, too. I took out my first student loans more than 20 years ago. I had dropped out of college just before the start of my junior year.
A report on student grades from one of the nation’s largest school districts offers some of the first concrete evidence that online learning is forcing a striking drop in students’ academic performance, and that the most vulnerable students — children with disabilities and English-language lea
Sarah Sanders' tweet complaining about losing Twitter followers has been criticized by a teacher from her high school. Dana D. Deree, who says he taught at Sanders' old high school, told her that if she had taken his advanced government class, she would "better understand the First Amendment."
For millions of Americans, getting a four-year degree no longer makes sense. Here’s what could replace it.
The government is expanding university capacity, but some young people worry that the option will only postpone a crisis stemming from a shortage of well-paying work.
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More than 7,300 law school alumni and students have signed a petition calling for the disbarment of Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) over what it says were their “efforts to undermine the peaceful transition of power after a free and fair election.”
Fears from the summer appear to have been overblown. In early August, the first kids in America went back to school during the pandemic. Many of these openings happened in areas where cases were high or growing: in Georgia, Indiana, Florida.
TikTok is full of dubious personal finance myths. Here are 10 of them, and why you should be wary.
Gabriel Guimaraes grew up in Vitória, Brazil, in a yellow house surrounded by star-fruit trees and chicken coops. His father, who wrote software for a local bank, instilled in him an interest in computers. On weekends, when Guimaraes got bored with Nintendo video games, he programmed his own.