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This yellow goo is the idea girlfriend: pretty and smart. Artist and researcher Heather Barnett shows us how.
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Are our kids getting worse at creative writing? 6 sci-fi and fantasy books to share with the App Generation
The "app generation" struggles with creative writing — as a new study shows, they’re turning into realists. Here’s a mini summer reading list that might inspire some wild thinking.
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The language we speak shapes our identity and our society. So let’s celebrate the diversity of English dialects.
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A powerful letter from my great-great-grandfather, who escaped slavery in 1855
How a letter written in 1855 gave Kyra Gaunt a whole new perspective on slavery.
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