The holidays aren’t always a party for single people, especially when family members insist on using Christmas gatherings to pressure young people into getting married. “So,” someone always asks, “are you seeing anyone special?”...
Thanks to fifth-grade teacher Chris Wilcox, scores of young writers will enter high school with a significant accomplishment under their belts: They’re already published....
From Joondalup, Australia, to Zagreb, Croatia, to Curitiba, Brazil, to Edmonton, Canada, local governments have banded together to keep their cities ecologically sound as part of Local Action for Biodiversity, a project sponsored by the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. ...
“Finding oneself in a good conversation,” writes Alain de Botton for Standpoint, “is rather like stumbling on a beautiful square in a foreign city at night—and then never knowing how to get back there in daytime.”...
With its 25th anniversary coming next year, book publisher 4th Estate asked design and marketing firm Apt to help with the celebration. The result is “This is Where We Live,” a stop-animation video with scenery and figures made entirely out of 4th Estate books....