Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform life at home”. Standing 168 centimetres tall and weighing in at 30 kilograms, the US$20,000 Neo bot promises to automate common household chores such as folding laundry and loading the dishwasher. Neo has a built-in artificial intelligence (AI) system, […] … learn more→

In blues, jazz, and music that traces its roots to those genres, the riff is a repeated chord progression or set of notes that ties a song together. A guitar riff returns again and again in a song as though to tell listeners where they are, even as the instruments take excursions elsewhere. The song […] … learn more→

Cursive writing is more than just a beautiful style of handwriting; it helps improve writing speed, coordination, and overall presentation. Many students and adults learn cursive at an early age, but over time, small mistakes begin to appear. These mistakes can affect readability, neatness, and confidence. The good news is that cursive writing problems are […] … learn more→

Imagine you live in a village in the Pyrenees of Lleida. The only way to contact the nearest doctor, who makes daily rounds in the regional capital, is by phone or through an online consultation . However, the health center’s switchboard is overwhelmed. You have a mobile phone that allows you to make video calls with your […] … learn more→

Public debate about artificial intelligence in higher education has largely orbited a familiar worry: cheating. Will students use chatbots to write essays? Can instructors tell? Should universities ban the tech? Embrace it? These concerns are understandable. But focusing so much on cheating misses the larger transformation already underway, one that extends far beyond student misconduct and […] … learn more→

Since its launch in late January 2026, Moltbook has seen AI agents found religions, create subcultures, and launch markets for “digital drugs.” A spectacular experiment, but one in which some of the protagonists are actually infiltrated humans. A new social network called Moltbook has been launched for artificial intelligence, aiming to allow machines to exchange […] … learn more→

The term “social media” has become fossilized in our vocabulary, a linguistic inertia that masks a very different technological and sociological reality. However, social media, as it was originally conceived, is dead. What we consume today are commercial platforms for mass entertainment, built on an architecture that no longer seeks connection between people, but rather […] … learn more→

I spoke in January 2026 with 150 high school students about career options. After explaining my own career as a professor of education, health and behavior, I asked the students a simple question: Would you want to be a teacher? “Why in the world would I want to be a teacher?” one female student said. “My […] … learn more→

For the past decade I have volunteered at St. Francis Inn, a soup kitchen in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. Kensington, for those not from Philly, has long had a reputation for potent but affordable street drugs. Interstate 95 and the Market-Frankford elevated commuter train line provide easy access to the neighborhood for buyers and sellers, and […] … learn more→

For years, social media has operated under a clear premise: participation means being visible. Posting photos, opinions, achievements, or snippets of daily life has become an implicit norm of digital presence. In many contexts, not doing so can even be interpreted as absence, disinterest, or social disconnection. However, a behavior that breaks with this logic […] … learn more→