Wondersnevercease

09/20/2026

The tasks students are given during the year—homework, essays, tests—are not the point of the instruction. These types of work have historically been a means to help build and improve upon skills, but now large language models and the long shadow of the job market have disrupted a centuries-old educational paradigm, according to Dan Rockmore, a mathematics and computer science professor at Dartmouth. “The stick is broken and the carrot has lost its taste.” His solution? Focus on how to create classrooms that make the process feel worth doing for its own sake, something akin to replicating the feeling and fulfillment that comes from exercising. Read more: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/0Q0_9p

09/20/2026

09/20/2026

From old love letters to pieces of string, our homes are stuffed with stuff. When it comes time to empty a parent’s home, sorting the junk from the memory can be overwhelming.

09/20/2026

Raising them right. 📖📖📖🥰🥰🥰

09/20/2026

Adolescence actor Stephen Graham and psychologist Orly Klein asked men to write to their sons. The results – from Riz Ahmed, Danny Dyer and more – are moving and motivating.

09/20/2026

The footprints, found in 1.4-million-year-old rock, record the steps of multiple individual hominins, preserved alongside those of ancient hippos and water birds. Depending on what species of early human left the tracks, the findings might significantly alter researchers’ understanding of one of the hominins.

How does the discovery change our ideas of an early human relative? https://bit.ly/4xw1cxX

📸: Kay Behrensmeyer

04/18/2026

04/15/2026

if the Trump heart could be converted, it would torture itself with guilt and remorse

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