Learning Through Writing

from the Richmond Times-Dispatch My Life: Imparting life lessons among 10th-grade teacher’s favorite tasks by Christina Grande CHRISTINA GRANDE When I was in third grade, I dressed up as a teacher for Halloween. My mom sprayed my jet-black hair gray (with...

Zaha Hadid Gone

from WIRED Superstar Architect Zaha Hadid Is Dead at 65 Zahad Hadid in her London office in 1985. CHRISTOPHER PILLITZ/GETTY IMAGES ZAHA HADID, ONE of architecture’s biggest stars, has passed away at age 65. According to the website of the Iraqi-born, London-based...

We Shall Be Superheroes

from The Guardian Science and superheroes: how close are we to creating real superpowers? As Marvel’s Deadpool hits screens we ask: with three out of five fictional superheroes owing their powers to science, will we ever have real superpowers? by Damien Walter...

Patternizing Primes (or, Re-defining Random)

from Quanta Magazine Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers seems to violate a longstanding assumption about how they behave. By Erica Klarreich Zim + Teemo for Quanta Magazine Two mathematicians have uncovered a...

Coach Ken Reeves Gone

from People Actor Ken Howard Dies at 71 BY PATRICK GOMEZ @PatrickGomezLA Ken Howard, best known for his groundbreaking CBS drama The White Shadow, is dead at 71. The Tony and Emmy Award winner also starred as Thomas Jefferson in the 1972 film 1776, was featured in the...