Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday ...

A new word, 'thymoleptic,' describes individuals who experience emotions, particularly sadness, more intensely and for longer durations. This trait, rooted in Greek for 'held by mood,' doesn't signify ...

Kopal Tare, a junior at Dublin High School, turned a childhood love of books — from “Harry Potter” to “Percy Jackson” — into Bee Stars, an online spelling ...

Structured literacy is an evidence-based approach to teaching reading and writing that has gained widespread attention for its effectiveness, especially for students who struggle with literacy skills.

The holiday season. The festive period. Yuletide. This time of year has all kinds of names and bynames, from simple catch-all generalizations to age-old terms with centuries of history. So Christmas ...

But what if the biggest giveaway that a text was written by AI isn’t a word, phrase, or punctuation mark, but a particular sentence structure instead? The idea that certain rhythms of sentences might ...

Root words are the basic parts of words from which other words are formed. Most English roots come from Latin or Greek, and they carry a core meaning. When you learn the root, you instantly understand ...

Welcome back Slovak Roots fans! It is time for another edition of our Slovak Roots newsletter, dedicated to the community of people with ties to Slovakia. In this newest instalment, you’ll learn more ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...