Why More Indian Students Are Choosing France for Higher EducationEurope is becoming one of the top choices for international students, with over 6 million students studying across the continent in 2023, up from 4.8 million in 2015, according to University Living's European Student Landscape report.
What Does the Ship Designation ‘SS’ Mean?The initialism was originally a bit of shipbuilder marketing.
Why Online Education Is Here to StayIn recent years, the delivery and perception of education has undergone significant evolution, and online education has emerged as a powerful force in shaping this change.
My Guilty Pleasure: Wasting Time With ListsThey are little anarchic reminders to love what is incomplete.
The Greatest Unknown Intellectual of the 19th CenturyEmil du Bois-Reymond proclaimed the mystery of consciousness, championed the theory of natural selection, and revolutionized the study of the nervous system. Today, he is all but forgotten.
DNA Reveals Surprise Twist About Christopher ColumbusOn 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port city of Genoa would be maintained for his family "because from it I came and in it I was born".
A New Kind of Crisis for American UniversitiesThe ivory tower has been breached. I personally think that the post–World War II system of big research universities funded heavily by the government will not continue.
It’s a War. Do Democrats Get That?The below article is an updated version of a piece that first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture.
Being an Asian Southerner Means Being an Anomaly, SquaredThe cicadas began to arrive in the South in May. I suppose “arrive” is the wrong word, as the insects had been in the yard for two years already when my parents bought the property back in 2006, their bodies buried eight or more feet deep in the soil, insect clocks set to a seventeen-year timer.
A border split my family's language. Now I'm bringing it backSanjana Bhambhani's ancestors fled their homeland during India's Partition – and her family gradually lost their mother tongue. Can she now reclaim it? When I was around eight years old, a teacher at my elementary school in New Delhi, India, asked us which languages our families spoke at home.
A Song on PorcelainIn many responses to the first days of the second Trump Presidency—expressions of an outrage denied the refuge of surprise—a historical analogy recurs: Is this how it felt to be a progressive liberal in Weimar Germany on January 30, 1933, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor?
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AI is taking down T.S. Eliot. I blame us.Diane Sun is a sophomore at Harvard University studying philosophy and linguistics. In 2022, I was named the national student poet of the West, one of the nation’s highest honors for youth poets. During my year of service, I performed my work across the country, including at the White House.
The prophet of the new rightWe are living through one of Britain’s fits of declinism. The graphs of national development are flat, or slope down; politicians on left and right bemoan our stagnancy as they search desperately for growth.
What We Learn About Our World by Imagining Its EndIt’s a mite soon to start grieving, but scientists now project that life on Earth will probably end in about a billion years. A Monday in February, 1,000,002,025, would be my guess.