• Students in Finland, the World’s Best-Educated Country, React to Japan’s Harsh School Rules
• Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Mascot Finalists Unveiled
• Japanese Elementary Students Will Judge the Official 2020 Tokyo Olympics Mascot
• Watch: Wild Boars Cause Havoc at School in Japan
• Wild Boar Shot Dead after Ra…
Born Identity
• Things I’ll Do Differently When I’m Old
• 27 Food Names Parents Are Giving Their Babies
• 27 Animal Names Parents Are Giving Their Babies
• Why Do We Have Middle Names?
• Parents of Summer Born Children Will Be Allowed to Start School Aged Five, Minister Says
• Don’t Call Us Snowflakes — I…
Conversation School
• The Secret Life of ‘Um’
• Why Small Talk Is Actually Really Good for You
• The Police Have Discovered Social Media Banter — the Result Is No Joke
• The Languages That Take the Most (and Least) Time to Learn, per the US Foreign Service
• A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: Fro…
Free Speech Issues
• How Do You Use an Anonymous Source? The Mysteries of Journalism Everyone Should Know
• Should You Help Your Child with Their Homework?
• The Contradictions of Good Teaching
• The Two Clashing Meanings of ‘Free Speech’
• The Supreme Court Wedding Cake Case Shows It’s Time to…
Imaginnovation
• Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing
• America’s Lost Einsteins
• Groundbreaking Empirical Research Shows Where Innovation Really Comes From
• Here’s How Imagination Works
• 6 Proven Benefits of Being More Imaginative
• 4 Proven Ways to Stimulate Your Imagination Throughout the Da…
Don’t Have to Baby Me
• Babies Might Understand Language Better Than Anyone Thought
• Babies Learn What Words Mean Before They Can Use Them
• 6-Month-Old Infants May Understand Related Words
• Hide and Seek Might Be Good for Kids’ Brains
• School Bans Teachers from Marking in Attempt to Boost Children’s Confidenc…
Tuition & Intuition
• University of California’s 8 Personal Insight Questions
• Oxford University Releases New Round of Interview Questions
• Solving the Riddle of Getting into Oxford
• ‘We Aren’t Trying to Wrong-Foot Them’: The Truth about the Oxbridge Interview
• A Yale Psychologist’s Sim…
Physics & Physique
• 18 of the Greatest Photographs from 125 Years of National Geographic
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• Finally, a Downside to Being Attractive
• Attractive Woman Says Being So Beautiful Is a Real Curse
• People Guess Which Strangers Are Virgins in Myth-Challenging Vide…
Around Japan 5
• The Secret Lives of Japanese Families: 8 Unusual Household Rules Revealed
• Japanese Artist Reveals the Truth Behind All Those Happy Photos on Social Media
• Japanese Artist Illustrates the Right and Wrong Ways to Carry an Umbrella on Public Transport
• Why Do Japanese People Wear Medical Masks in Public?
• A Japanes Teenager is S…
Splitting Words
• The Guardian View on Translation: An Interpretative and Creative Act
• ‘Battle of the Dictionaries’ Ends in Victory for Casino as Court Rules Star Poker Player Cheated
• What Is ‘Edge-Sorting’ and Why Did It Cost a Poker Star $10 Million in Winnings?
• Supreme Court Delves into Semantics of English in a Capital Cas…
Language Universals
• German Untranslatable Words
• What English-Language Courtroom Dramas Sounds Like to Swedes
• 25 Words You Didn’t Know Were in the Dictionary
• Is an All-English Classroom Good for Students?
• What Is Universal Grammar?
• What Is Neurolinguistics?
• Grammarly Debuts IOS Keyboard App to Help Improv…
Books to School
• Jimbocho: Spending a Day in Tokyo’s Book District
• Drawn and Quarterly’s Incredible Montreal Book Store
• A Love Letter Fell out of an Old Paris Guidebook — and Set a Filmmaker on an Obsessive Quest
• New Zealand Library Cracks Case of the Missing Books
• New Zealand Library Solves Mystery of Missing Book…
Popcorn, Pooh, & People Power
• How a Piece of Popcorn Inspired a Hit Children’s Book
• The 10 Best Children’s Books for Adults
• Children’s Books Roundup: The Best New Picture Books and Novels
• Goodbye Christopher Robin Review: Not-So-Cuddly Biopic Reveals the Sadness Behind Winnie-the-Pooh
• Only Children’s Books wit…
Physics and Physiology
• 10 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets of Hand Models
• How to Trick Your Brain into Thinking a Small Animal Is Hopping up Your Arm
• 7 Surprising Facts about the Chin
• Boys Are Better at Physics Because They Learn about ‘Projection’ While Going to the Toilet, Researchers Say
• Girls’ School Shoes Are …
Back to School Special
• The First Day of School
• What the First Day of School Looks Like around the World
• Why Adults Still Experience Back-To-School Anxiety
• 11 Cool, Funny or Just Plain Strange Patents for Back to School
• Why Is This so Hard for People to Figure Out? The Daily Hell That Is School Drop-Off and Pickup
• A Brief History of Schoo…