Transformation Cover Story Rise of the microschool: Small, student-centered learning spaces take off | View caption Hide caption The one-room schoolhouse is typically considered a relic, but the intimacy and sense of community it represents are making a comeback in today’s microschools. “What made you pick all these?” her father, Piers Rollinson, asks. “My mind,”…
Honolulu, Hawaii A wall of glass doors in this Hawaiian Modernist home opens to a wraparound lanai with hot tub, shower, dining area, and Pacific Ocean views. Built in 1956 and recently renovated, the four-bedroom A-frame has lava-rock walls, hardwood floors, and a vaulted living space flowing into a dining room, lounge alcove, and updated…
First Look Amid brutal heat, Europeans offer air conditioning a cool embrace Europeans have long shunned air conditioning, tolerating even the most intense heat. But amid a brutal heatwave, where breezes are far and few between, some are beginning to give AC a second look. | View caption Hide caption | During Europe’s heat wave…
Welcome to The Check-In, our weekend feature focusing on all things travel. Hotels are making it easier to bring the vacation experience home Sometimes, the souvenir you want most from a trip is the fluffy hotel robe you couldn’t take off or the intoxicating fragrance that wafted down the hallways. More and more properties are…
Innovation The Explainer ‘ChatGPT, tell me a story’: AI gets literary | Artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT can now produce convincingly human-sounding essays with minimal effort from users. It’s a massive timesaver – and an ethical quandary. How does ChatGPT work? ChatGPT is currently available for free at OpenAI’s website. About 100 million people used…
Resilience Europe In Ukraine, summer camps provide kids a ‘childhood during war’ | View caption Hide caption Children are remarkably resilient. They are also vulnerable. However hard a society may try to shelter its children, the reality of a war such as Ukraine’s invades lives. For kids who have experienced loss, these summer camps are…
Our prayers have been answered. Apple’s upcoming iOS 17 iPhone software will include a new tweak that stops the phone’s autocorrect function from changing a certain curse word (you know the one) to “ducking,” the company announced this week at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The change is made possible by “a state-of-the-art on-device machine learning language model…
Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: A $100 piece of a $55 million painting A 1963 portrait by British artist Francis Bacon is about to make its stock market debut, said Carol Ryan in The Wall Street Journal. Next month, “a company named Artex is…