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They have just finished a performance about the American Revolution and colonial life that featured a variety of different ...

Writers are fed a bevy of mantras—“show don’t tell,” “kill your darlings”—which provide the security that there are rules, ...

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...

People struggling with symptoms of depression are less likely to perceive themselves as active initiators of their activities, which is directly reflected in the way they express themselves. Analyzing ...

We all know how difficult it can be to learn a new language. That’s especially true when you’re trying to self-study your way to fluency. There are tons of language learning apps nowadays, but ...

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...

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In 1839, English writer and politician Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” On a chilly February evening nearly 200 years later, nine writers gathered at the Loft Literary ...

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as opposites—one deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet ...