In this age of ‘always-on, anytime, anywhere,’ human attention spans have decreased drastically, from about 12 seconds in the early 2000s to about 8 seconds in 2018 for the average internet user. That ...

Text has always been one of humanity’s most enduring tools for thinking and connection. Whether carved in stone, printed on ...

Holiday travel introduces crowded environments and unpredictable networks that increase exposure to digital and physical ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Abstract: With the rising industrial attention to 3D virtual mod-eling technology, generating novel 3D content based on specified conditions (e.g. text) has become a hot issue. In this paper, we ...

Before BTS made K-pop mainstream globally, there was me: a teenager from the United States who fell in love with Indonesian music and became a Sahabat NOAH, the equivalent of BTS’s Army.

He launched a learning game at 16 that now reaches millions of students worldwide. Here’s what we can learn from this young ...

One Sunday some time ago, I was browsing through Spotify playlists — gospel and blues from the mid-20th century, mostly. At times I find myself wishing for a little more variety in the religious ...

Netflix’s new drama, Ripple, is quietly winning people over everywhere. It dropped on December 3, 2025, and didn’t take long ...

History provides different explanations for his journey. According to a shipmate, MacDonald anticipated that Japan would resume trade with the English-speaking world so went seeking work as an ...

There has been a longstanding discussion in the reading wars since the 1950s, when the novel “Why Johnny Can’t Read” ...