2+ hour, 19+ min ago  (692+ words) For decades, psychologists believed willpower was the ticket to a good life. "It was thought that people with better willpower would be more successful," says psychologist Marina Milyavskaya at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. Hundreds of studies appeared to support…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (346+ words) I don't see our choice as "AI or no AI" any more than past generations could halt the spread of the printing press " that widely decried threat to scholarship. Children born today will never know a world without AI. The…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (963+ words) Pittsburgh Public Schools board members have agreed to come to a decision on school closures before the end of the school year. The announcement came by way of a show of hands at the school board meeting Tuesday night, after…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (1030+ words) For their final presentations in the Artificial Intelligence and Ethics course at Avonworth High School last month, students each picked a topic to examine through the lens of AI. Senior Theo Rose chose to look at AI's role in the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (626+ words) When people are shown a spiky shape next to a rounded one and asked which shape is called "kiki" and which one is "bouba," people from all kinds of cultures overwhelmingly associate "bouba" with the blob-like shape and "kiki" with…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago  (320+ words) The studies and the science behind the significance and early learning, it is just simply staggering," First Lady Katie O'Connor said during a roundtable discussion she convened last week with leaders from Pittsburgh's literacy and children's organizations to explore ways…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (120+ words) The father of Liam Conejo Ramos says his 5-year-old "suffered psychological trauma" after immigration agents took him from Minnesota to a detention center in Texas. They were released earlier this month after their case captured national attention. But there are…...

1+ mon, 1+ hour ago  (800+ words) Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is directing state agencies to develop stricter regulations for artificial intelligence chatbots, which he says can be misleading and harmful to children. New restrictions could add Pennsylvania to a growing list of states seeking to impose…...

1+ mon, 21+ hour ago  (1225+ words) The Trump administration celebrated a recent statement from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, which recommends that doctors delay gender-related surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old. "Today marks another victory for biological truth in the Trump administration,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (444+ words) A new effort built from decades of research at Carnegie Mellon University aims to help college students nationwide master gateway courses that often derail them from their chosen fields. Learnvia is a new nonprofit collaborative backed by CMU that provides…...