What Types of Acoustic Noise Reduction Solutions Exist?
In today’s world, managing noise is essential for maintaining a productive and comfortable environment, whether in a residential, commercial, or industrial setting. Acoustic noise reduction solutions are diverse, catering to various needs and environments. This article explores the primary types of acoustic noise reduction solutions available, highlighting their applications, benefits, and considerations for choosing the…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
What’s Going On in This Graph? | March 3, 2021
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.In 2019 in the United States, nearly 14 percent of adults aged 18 years or older smoked cigarettes. This is a decline from 20 percent in 2005. Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per…
From the Military to the Ivy League: Two Veterans Pursue Dartmouth’s...
John Murphy and Felix Hong have traversed unique yet parallel journeys, from serving their country to pursuing advanced degrees through Dartmouth’s online Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering (MEng). Both veterans are applying the discipline and skills they honed in the military to tackle intellectually enriching challenges in hardware and software engineering. Here’s a glimpse…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Are Youth Sports Too Stressful to Be Fun Anymore?
Have you ever participated in organized sports, in or out of school? If so, have those experiences been positive? Or do you feel that youth sports have become too stressful and too focused on winning?In “Luka Doncic Wants Young Players to Embrace ‘Mess and Joy’,” Tania Ganguli writes that Doncic, the Dallas Mavericks star, is…
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Word + Quiz: vernacular
vernacular vər-ˈna-kyə-lər , və- noun and adjectivenoun: the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)noun: a characteristic language of a particular group adjective: being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language_________The word vernacular has appeared in 122 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 18 in…
Word of the Day: oblige
The word oblige has appeared in 39 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 26 in “What Layoffs? Many Employers Are Eager to Hang On to Workers” by Sydney Ember and Ben Casselman:During the height of the pandemic, hungry and housebound customers clamored for Home Run Inn Pizza’s frozen thin-crust pies. The…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
How well has Africa managed COVID-19?
At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, there were dire predictions about the spread of the virus through Africa. The continent was deemed a high-risk area for the spread of this deadly new disease.However, six months into the pandemic and Africa has largely bucked the trend. While European and American countries have seen deaths in…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | April 22, 2024
1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions:2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post…
What is front end?
If you're familiar with web development, you've probably heard reference to "the front end" — but what is it, exactly? Generally speaking, the front end is the user-facing part of a website. It's what you see when you type in something like "codecademy.com." But, of course, there's more to it than that.As Front-End Web Developer…
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5 Ways to Boost Your Productivity and Your Earning Power!
Productivity is a very difficult skill to measure. It’s not something you can get a degree in or pass a test to prove you have it. But employers know it when they see it and they value it above almost every other skill an employee can possess. Time is money in every industry and so…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | Nov. 1, 2021
1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions:2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post…
Film Club: ‘Why Rappers Stopped Writing: The Punch-In Method’
“I think a lot of people picture, like, modern rappers who really just, like, pen and paper in the studio, writing down their raps, figuring it out, scratching it out, changing it.” “Yeah, no, we stopped writing a long time ago. Not many people write.” “Back in the day, when people were just using tape,…
Weekly Student News Quiz: Iran War, Airport Lines, Perfect Bracket
Above is an image related to one of the news stories we followed this past week. Do you know what it shows? At the bottom of this quiz, you'll find the answer.Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Picture Prompt: Surfer and Otter
Tell us a story, real or made up, that is inspired by this image.