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One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

Manuskript. Most people don't know it. It's software for writers. Software with lots of options, while being a lot simpler than Scrivener. I know loads of authors live inside Scrivener, and hooray for them, but it's too much, big, complex, confusing for me. Read about Manuskript etc at their homepage. There are screenshots and a list of features. This post, and perhaps another one, will go into how I use it, to give you an idea. Note: Manuskript is Free…

The Magazine for Science and Reason

Both folktales and formal philosophy unsettle us into thinking anew about our cherished values and views of the world

research and conceptual discussions in literacy and language learning

Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

Science means being able to change your mind in light of new evidence

Science confirms what many have already suspected —critical thinking mentally draining and often unpleasant.

Plato's cave metaphor illustrates the cognitive trap of ignorance, where we may be unaware of the limitations of our understanding.

What we can build this way is a world where policy is evidence based. Where we make data informed decisions, while understanding that the data isn’t perfect. Where kids are empowered to learn all o…

Do you want to share files between devices, keep them synced up, and avoid using cloud services to do the job? SyncThing has your back.

BitBar Cloud hosts hundreds of Android and iOS devices, enabling users to create and test high quality mobile apps and games.

Easy to use online animated GIF maker and image editor. Create, convert, crop, resize, reverse, optimize animated GIF, WebP, APNG files, images and videos.

Easily create animated GIFs online from videos, Youtube, video websites, or images. Simple yet powerful customization options.

Free screen recorder tool. Record, edit and save as a gif or video.

Best and free HTML Convert to Markdown Online Tool. Get Website HTML Content by Url, Convert With Readability and Image Proxy.

You can search for text in fields of type text, or in calculation fields that return a text result.

Hemingway Editor makes your writing bold and clear.

Useful, free online tool that converts HTML code to Markdown. No ads, nonsense, or garbage, just a neat Markdown converter. Press a button – get the result.

Make photo in the form of a circle, triangle, heart or in different geometric shapes online.

Generate iframe code online to embed any HTML doc or page to any website or blog with live preview options and customizations

Wavacity is a port of the Audacity audio editor to the web browser. Free and open-source. No install required.

The NCES Kids' Zone provides information to help you learn about schools; decide on a college; find a public library; engage in several games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians; and to learn many interesting facts about education.