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Which states are the most and least literate? This interesting map shows adult literacy rates for every U.S. state.

Online mathematics programs may benefit most the kids who need it least

4. Handwriting improves thinking. (Yours, too.)

A new metanalysis adds to the growing evidence base showing that reading on screens is worse for comprehension.

Handwriting activates key brain regions for memory and learning, suggesting educational systems should integrate traditional and digital methods effectively.

One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

If we want students to take control of their learning, we first need to implement mechanistic metacognition so that they understand how best to learn, argues Jared Cooney Horvath

research and conceptual discussions in literacy and language learning

What we can build this way is a world where policy is evidence based. Where we make data informed decisions, while understanding that the data isn’t perfect. Where kids are empowered to learn all o…

Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

Science means being able to change your mind in light of new evidence

Science confirms what many have already suspected —critical thinking mentally draining and often unpleasant.

Both folktales and formal philosophy unsettle us into thinking anew about our cherished values and views of the world

Plato's cave metaphor illustrates the cognitive trap of ignorance, where we may be unaware of the limitations of our understanding.

The Magazine for Science and Reason

Easily create animated GIFs online from videos, Youtube, video websites, or images. Simple yet powerful customization options.

Free screen recorder tool. Record, edit and save as a gif or video.

Free online web content composer with HTML source editor and rich text WYSIWYG editor preview. It works without downloading and installing any program.

Make photo in the form of a circle, triangle, heart or in different geometric shapes online.

Sketchpad: Free online drawing application for all ages. Create digital artwork to share online and export to popular image formats JPEG, PNG, SVG, and PDF.

Useful, free online tool that converts HTML code to Markdown. No ads, nonsense, or garbage, just a neat Markdown converter. Press a button – get the result.

Free, open-source, full-featured Markdown editor.

Convert your markdown to HTML in one easy step - for free!

Micro.blog-hosted blogs and replies support Markdown for formatting your posts. While most of Markdown’s syntax is allowed, you should limit markup to simple formatting and links so that it reads well in microblog posts. Micro.blog’s timeline will additionally strip out some HTML tags from blog posts. Emphasis: To emphasize some words or phrases, surround the text with single underscores. This will produce italic text when shown on your microblog and in the timeline: Here is some _italic_ text...

We have encouraged our readers to participate in a contest by designing beautiful and creative horizontal lines. It was necessary, since this design-element was slowly disappearing and was often neglected in web design. But it is going to change now. We have received 1290 images and source-files from 384 designers across the globe. The result is an impressive collection of horizontal lines that designers can use for free without any restrictions whatsoever.