PCWorld explores how human writing can exhibit AI-like characteristics, with an author using Claude Sonnet 4.6 to analyze ...

PCWorld explores how human writing can exhibit AI-like characteristics, using Claude Sonnet 4.6 to analyze writing patterns ...

New teachers in particular may benefit from trying this four-part framework for guiding students to improve their writing.

This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about ...

As AI absorbs more of the fast, transactional work that once filled our days, the cognitive tasks that remain distinctly human (reflection, synthesis, planning, original thinking) are getting harder ...

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 ...

You default to typing because it’s faster, more convenient, and digitally organized. But what if speed is costing you something, cognitively? While typing prioritizes efficiency, handwriting engages ...

It’s a phrase teachers hear too often, usually at the exact moment a writing task is assigned. For many students, the leap from understanding a concept to putting it on paper feels like an impossible ...

As AI makes inroads into the worlds of editorial and media, websites are scrambling to establish ground rules for its usage. This week, Wikipedia banned the use of AI-generated text by its editors — ...

When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...