Education

Dante Alighieri is one of the pillars of Western literature. And his texts have been translated into English dozens of times. With two new translations of his work out now, it’s worth asking – why do we keep returning to this well?

In 2025 AI Agents will dominate discussions of AI in education. More than just a tool, AI agents, using rich video interfaces, will drive robust educational experiences.

In such a densely packed city, space can feel zero sum.

When the hunting of a profitable bird is outlawed, enforcing the law means dealing with armed and angry lawbreakers.

A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.

The Sonoran Desert, which covers much of the southwestern United States, is a vast expanse of arid earth where cartoonish entities—roadrunners, tumbleweeds, telephone-pole-tall succulents—make occasional appearances.

1. Think about Yourself Modern French intellectual culture has two founding myths. In 1571 the thirty-eight-year-old Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne, decided to take early retirement in the tower of his Bordeaux country estate.

The weapon is in an exceptional state of preservation and is being likened to the sword found at Sutton Hoo, the Anglo-Saxon burial in Suffolk. It has a silver-and-gilt hilt, with a decorative pattern in fine craftsmanship, and a blade bearing a runic script.

In the early 19th century, the so-called Elgin marbles, once part of the facade of the Parthenon, were gathered as debris from the Acropolis in Athens and sent to England, where they were eventually “deposited” in the British Museum.

If you’ve read one work of Han­nah Arendt’s, it’s prob­a­bly Eich­mann in Jerusalem, her account of the tri­al of the epony­mous Nazi offi­cial — and the source of her much-quot­ed phrase “the banal­i­ty of evil.