Source link Web derives from an Old English word meaning “that which is woven,” referring to fabrics. By 1300, it also meant “a plexus of threads made by spider.” Today, of course, …
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Source link A news blurb on back-to-school sales gave me a tough dose of reality the other day. Even though most of the nation is currently in the throes of …
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Source link Why does someone past the Psalmist’s “threescore years and ten” find himself entranced by a 150-year-old novel aimed at adolescents, namely, Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Girl”? The …
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Source link One constant of my growing-up years was my family’s afternoon “quiet time.” My siblings and I would each be given a separate space in which to play – …
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Source link Message from Walker: “Intellectual Takeout depends on donors like you to bring my work and the work of my stellar colleagues to the public. I love writing about …
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Source link One of the big questions emerging from the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is what exactly it means to know something at all. While advanced AI models can …
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Source link With the 250th anniversary of our country behind us, I’ve been left with a lot of patriotism. It can be easy to focus on the negatives, but when …
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Source link Online dating is the most common way couples meet today. One graph circulating on X shows that over 60% of today’s couples meet online. At 13%, meeting through friends is …
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Source link I’ve marveled before about how statements of the past can read like today’s headlines, especially those like the following taken from the front flap of Martin L. Gross’ …
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Source link In the summer of 2023, I fell in love with poetry. I was living overseas, struggling to navigate a job teaching English and a new life in a …