In online "prepper" communities—where people discuss ways to prepare for potential emergencies and disruptions—members often jokingly refer to their "zombie apocalypse" skills.
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Overworked teachers in southern India have a new tool for educating their students: Shiksha Copilot, an AI system that generates culturally relevant lesson plans for schools with few resources.
Education
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A few months ago, a friend posted something that caught my eye on social media. She struggled to listen to what she termed "(literally) breathless AI voices for audiobooks."
Social Sciences
Oct 8, 2026
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AI company Anthropic recently announced that its popular system Claude had identified an unusual family of biological molecules. These molecules were enzymes, a type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in living ...
Education
Oct 8, 2026
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Children as young as five can engage meaningfully with complex ideas about human rights, new research from The University of Manchester suggests.
Education
Oct 8, 2026
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A new study examined how positive psychology interventions could help reduce teacher burnout and turnover, retain valuable knowledge and experience in our schools and create better learning environments for students.
Education
Oct 8, 2026
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Students with stronger reading skills are better able to spot misinformation online—and those skills may be especially important for teenagers from disadvantaged backgrounds, according to a new study from the Brown School ...
Social Sciences
Oct 8, 2026
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The traditional CPA firm partnership model is undergoing its most rapid transformation in decades. Driven by private equity (PE) investments and acquisitions, public accounting firms are restructuring operations, compensation ...
Economics & Business
Oct 8, 2026
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In Phillip Zane's classroom, students weigh an invitation to jump out of an airplane. The skydiving lesson and jump are free, and the exercise assumes there is zero risk of death. But an injury could mean $10,000 in medical ...
Economics & Business
Oct 8, 2026
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Articles published in The Conversation go well beyond academics writing for a general audience—they can also serve as valuable content for educators to use in the classroom.
Education
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