In my high-school English classes, I often tell my students that they write their papers backwards: They devise a thesis and then look for evidence to support it. They’ll find what they want to see, I ...

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Two hundred years ago, the son of a saddler from a rural French village devised a groundbreaking tactile writing method of raised dots for blind people at the mere age of 15. Changing attitudes before ...

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Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

In the hallowed halls of comic book history, few figures loom larger than Stan Lee, the charismatic mastermind behind Marvel’s rise to prominence in the 1960s. While Lee’s bombastic personality and ...

Got candles? Cake? A thoughtful gift? If so, then all that's left is to warm up your vocal chords ahead of singing “Happy Birthday” and signing the card. If you've picked out just the right one, but ...