Driving the historic number of candidates — there were 11 candidates in 2023 and nine in 2021, according to city records — is a desire for increased transparency between the committee and community, ...

First published in The Atlantic on October 26, 2025.

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If the recent news of a new mathematics and statistics curriculum for years 0–10 felt familiar, that's because it was.

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Elementary teachers can focus on these fundamentals of child development to support social and emotional learning.

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this ...

He avoided fame, lived in isolation, and ignored modern math — but still changed it forever. His life reads like fiction, but ...

That’s especially true for remembering things you want to do. Psychologists call them prospective memories: remembering to perform a planned action, or recall a planned intention, at some point in the ...

These memory nodes are not random; geometry appears to have been selected over millions of years to optimize enzyme access, embedding biological computation directly into physical structure. “We are ...

The guidelines now advise combining aerobic exercise with resistance training that includes both dynamic and isometric moves—such as planks or wall sits—to help lower blood pressure. If you already ...