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Strong STEM = Beautiful BLOSSOMS! BLOSSOMS is developing a large, free repository of interactive, teacher-centric videos for high school STEM classes.

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Edsger Dijkstra, on computer programming, from 1988. qr.ae/pFCXXf

A Dutch computer scientist gave one lecture in 1988 arguing that programming is unlike anything...

A Dutch computer scientist gave one lecture in 1988 arguing that programming is unlike anything humans have ever tried to do before, and the reason most software on earth is broken is that we are...

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HIDDEN STORIES 10 clichés you've used for years—and the surprising stories behind them. dictionaryscoop.com/article/…
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GETTY IMAGES My Students Can’t Read The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse. chronicle.com/article/my-stu…

Opinion | My Students Can’t Read

The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.

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A Shipwreck 'Almost Beyond Belief' Stunned Archaeologists in Norway With Its Cargo of Intact Porcelain Dishes and Luxury Goods smithsonianmag.com/smart-new… via @smithsonianmag

A Shipwreck 'Almost Beyond Belief' Stunned Archaeologists in Norway With Its Cargo of Intact...

So far, archaeologists have recovered 40 artifacts from the discovery, an 18th-century shipwreck that likely will yield thousands more treasures

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Problems that defeated human mathematicians for decades are now solved, but for whose benefit? physicsworld.com/a/ai-led-so…

AI-led solutions of Erdős problems spark debate over the future of mathematics – Physics World

Problems that defeated human mathematicians for decades are now solved, but for whose benefit?

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6 Ancient Fish Older Than Dinosaurs That Are Still Swimming Today. zmescience.com/feature-post/…

6 Ancient Fish Older Than Dinosaurs That Are Still Swimming Today

These ancient fish lineages survived mass extinctions, ice ages, and evolutionary upheaval.

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St. John's College Is Weird. Maybe Yours Should Be More Like It. chronicle.com/article/st-joh…

St. John’s College Is Weird. Maybe Yours Should Be More Like It.

Its Great Books approach is anachronistic, and spreading.

chronicle.com
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Weirdest Inventions Ever Dreamed Up by Americans. theamericanfacts.com/article…
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What is the oldest living animal on Earth? The answer will shock you! dictionaryscoop.com/article/…
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Climate change fearmongerers owe Gen Z an apology thehill.com/opinion/energy-e…

Climate change fearmongerers owe Gen Z an apology

I have yet to speak with a person — Republican, Democrat or independent — who believed those “end of the world” predictions even remotely plausible. That is not to say, however, that those non-stop…

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Scientists Found The Atomic Reason That Gold Refuses to Rust. PHYSICS22 May 2026, by MICHELLE STARR sciencealert.com/scientists-…

Scientists Found The Atomic Reason That Gold Refuses to Rust

How is it possible?

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2 Commonly Overlooked Signs of Intelligence | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…

2 Commonly Overlooked Signs of Intelligence

Researchers studying language, cognition, and verbal processing have identified behaviors that correlate with higher cognitive ability but that are often mistaken for their opposite.

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From MIT, Bertrand's Paradox. The Problem: Determine the probability that a random chord of a circle of unit radius has a length greater than the square root of 3, the side of an inscribed equilateral triangle. web.mit.edu/tee/www/bertrand…
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You won't believe where the word "dude" actually came from. dictionaryscoop.com/article/…
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WORDS OF WISDOM Did you know that the idiom "by and large" comes from sailors? dictionaryscoop.com/article/…
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The Bizarre Reason Why the Earth’s Core Is Younger than the Crust. zmescience.com/feature-post/…

The Bizarre Reason Why the Earth's Core Is Younger than the Crust

This is less about geology and more about physics.

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MIT says research funding has fallen amid Trump cuts bostonglobe.com/2026/05/14/b… via @BostonGlobe

‘A loss for the nation’: MIT president says research has fallen 10 percent, and grad student...

The decreases show the clearest impact of how the Trump administration’s aggressive effort to reshape higher education is affecting MIT.

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The “Pythagorean Theorem” Is Probably Thousands of Years Older Than Pythagoras. zmescience.com/feature-post/…

The "Pythagorean Theorem" Is Probably Thousands of Years Older Than Pythagoras

Ancient scribes, priests, and surveyors were using the famous much earlier.

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11 common objects that are never called by their proper names. dictionaryscoop.com/article/…
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