Naming and categorizing objects is part of how young kids develop executive function skills – new research

Kids with good executive function tend to grow up to be financially stable, healthy, productive adults. Past attempts to teach these skills have flopped. New brain research on language may change that ...
The New Yorker

How to Practice

I started thinking about getting our house in order when Tavia’s father died. Tavia, my friend from early childhood (and youth, and middle age, and these years on the downhill slalom), grew up in unit ...
ADTmag

Java 25: Oracle’s Big-Tent Release—and a Clearer Roadmap for What’s Next

JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new two-year LTS cadence (after 21), and it lands with meaningful language ...

Java 25 LTS is now available with features like module import declarations, compact source files

Java 25 was released today as the latest LTS version of the language, meaning it will be supported by Oracle for at least ...
Brown University

Exhibition at Brown responds to University’s Haffenreffer Museum collection of Navajo objects

A major solo exhibition by Diné artist Eric-Paul Riege exploring the production and reproduction of Indigeneity is on view at ...
Sky

Money blog: A £1 pay rise could leave you tens of thousands worse off in Britain - here's why

Today in Money: our regular weekend long read focuses on the "100,000 trap" which could cost some workers in the UK tens of thousands. It's leading people to turn ...