Ancient Mesopotamians used pictures of basic objects to preserve and describe their culture. The Phoenicians pivoted from pictures to symbols around 1600 B.C., a harbinger of our modern alphabet. Each ...

We have an epidemic. The virus is known to travel on paper and transmit over the keyboard: it jumps from old lawyer to young lawyer, preys on the inexperienced and insecure lawyer, and thrives in the ...

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who ...

Chris Simms is a science writer based in Somerset, UK. “Obviously as soon as people see that you can persuade people more with LLMs, they’re going to start using them,” says study co-author Francesco ...

OpenAI’s GPT-4 is much better at getting people to accept its point of view during an argument than humans are—but there’s a catch. Millions of people argue with each other online every day, but ...

The United Kingdom’s highest court ruled that the legal definition of “woman” excludes trans women, in a case with sweeping consequences for how equality laws are applied. Britain’s Supreme Court ...

This simple activity asks students to use a fun, oral activity to engage with persuasive thinking and explore how to form a convincing opinion or debate. Introduce students to persuasive vocabulary ...

Twenty years ago, when I started my career as an ESL teacher in Houston, Texas, I remember the struggles of teaching persuasive writing to English learners. I had students who were bright, ...