What does it mean to ‘understand’? Despite its centrality to most, if not all educational endeavours, what is meant by ‘understanding’ is not clear and is highly contested (Ross, ...

In 1984, the American politician Mario Cuomo famously observed that politicians campaign in poetry; they govern in prose .

Language contains the ways of life of the people who have used it. Even when describing the same event, the expressions naturally chosen in Japanese and English differ. This difference appears not ...

I first picked up The Iliad because the cloth-bound red cover, stamped with gold flames, was simply gorgeous. So much for not judging a book by its cover. The Penguin Classics edition sat on my shelf ...

So long, metaphor. We had a good run. Goodbye, “All the world’s a stage.” Farewell, “She’s a brick house.” See you later, the swamp (drained or undrained). Now we have a symbolic black hole in the ...

After using the “morning pages” technique to write Fruit Bats’ stripped-down, mostly solo 2025 album Baby Man, frontman Eric D. Johnson tried a similar approach in a different context for the ...

As AI continues to evolve and expand across industries throughout the United States, President Donald Trump is taking steps to strengthen the security of advanced AI systems and address emerging ...

In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about the ways that A.I. has changed their classrooms. Most felt despair over the breakdown of a ...

Studies show that the public is failing to take antimicrobial resistance seriously, despite an estimated 4.95 million deaths associated with it in 2019. Antimicrobial resistance describes the process ...

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Abstract thinking helps you find patterns in data and explain meaning through stories and ideas. It also supports humor, creativity, and problem-solving beyond what you can observe. Concrete thinking ...