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Each of these titles exercises a different kind of reading muscle, so that you can choose the one that will push you most.

I tried it—and the results were fantastic.

Dominic Riley has spent decades designing and creating new covers for special volumes, and teaching others how to do it, too.

A conversation about yogurt wars, German hymns, tropical cyclones, and the people who make Wikipedia function.

What is Atomic Note-Taking? Atomic note-taking is a method of organizing information into...

CAUTION: Monoid fever is contagious.

Four timeless lessons on writing well from Steven Pinker’s ‘The Sense of Style’

A study of humanity’s most brilliant, collected wisdom in 27 categories, backed by data and with real sources

A convenient online ruler that could be calibrated to the most accurate ruler, one side is metric ruler, another side inch ruler, measurements in cm, mm and inch

Novelist Sean Michaels envisions what life will look like 125 years from now.

Don’t let your hard work be pulled from the internet.

Struggling with how to make an article, email, or proposal compelling? Focusing on where you put information delivers a bigger payoff than what you say.

Part 1: The thought behind the thought

We make science and technology easy to understand.

The Wikimedia Foundation has created an experimental Chrome extension called "Citation Needed" that uses ChatGPT and Wikipedia to verify the accuracy of content on websites.

Claude Fredericks, a Bennington classics professor, knew Anaïs Nin and James Merrill, and taught Donna Tartt. He kept a journal for eight decades, and persuaded many in his orbit that he was writing a titanic masterpiece. Did he?