And I certainly do not want AI to write my books for me, or paint my pictures. Not only would the work be terrible: it wouldn’t even be work. As all creatives know, there is limited joy in having ...

If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not better And I certainly do not want AI to write my ...

AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder But in the longer run, the damage is being done to students. By making effort an optional fa ...

The Christian Science Monitor has This Story on St. Catherine\’s Monastery, regarded as having one of the world\’s finest collections of manuscripts and icons. The ancient library – containing 5,000 ...

Fifteen-year-old Florida resident Lilli Leight wanted to help provide homeless kids in her community with access to books, so she created a “giving library” at a Miami homeless shelter. To staff the ...

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As part of their large Consumer Health Information site, the University of Michigan has a very clear, clean page answering most common questions about cholesterol and health.

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The 23,600 volumes he accumulated between the 1970s and his arrest in March of 1990 were all stashed in his 17-room home — wall to wall, floor to ceiling, in hallways, closets and bathrooms. But the ...

They have trouble making decisions. They would rather hike in the Himalayas than climb a corporate ladder. They have few heroes, no anthems, no style to call their own. They crave entertainment, but ...

Forthright’s Phrontistery. The Compendium lists over 400 of the rarest modern English words – in fact, ones that have been entirely absent from the Internet, including all online dictionaries, until ...

Norman Oder: Aiming to build on previous research on latent public support for libraries, and to offer libraries a hand at a Gates Foundationtime when they’re both ever more useful and stressed, the ...