A professor at the University of Tennessee reimagines the way we teach STEM with a science-fiction story-based class. In the beginning, a spaceship called the Yggdrasil is sailing through the cosmos ...

A machine is trained to write deceptively humanlike poetry. Children learn mostly passively, through mechanical devices. Genius is defined as identifying the right questions to ask an all-knowing ...

“I went up. I probably should have prepared a speech … I think I started by saying, ‘I never win anything,’ to express my surprise,” recalled Ed Park, a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Lewis ...

Teaching ethics and sustainability through fiction A novel offers practical ways for students to consider how theory and practice can come together in addressing climate challenges. Here, Denise Baden ...

What prompted the idea for the course? After reading many fiction books that featured themes of climate change, I felt compelled to create a course that would allow students to do the same. The idea ...

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Last month, Microsoft integrated its Bing search engine with Open AI’s GPT-4 chatbot, a large language model designed to interact with users in a conversational manner. In Star Trek: The Next ...

A skilled fiction writer can take a reader into an unfamiliar mind. I can’t speak for everyone who reads fiction, but many of us who love reading want to explore minds — and through them, worlds — ...