My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Three years later, Prashanth says Stack Overflow is now very comfortable primarily as an enterprise SaaS business, which provides AI-based solutions that are tailored to different companies’ internal ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

Here are recommended reads about the United States — perfect for the history buff on your gift list, or anyone looking to learn more about how the U.S got to where it is today.

Here’s a thought many of us have these days: if only we weren’t on our damn phones all the time, we would surely unlock a better self—one that went on hikes and talked more with our children and felt ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

LSU’s big-time hire of Lane Kiffin comes with an insane price tag and a rare financial reality of their terrible past. With Kiffin now having signed a seven-year incentive-heavy deal valued at $90 ...

On July 25, 1853, a group of California Rangers met a band of armed Mexicans near Coalinga, in central-California gold-mining country. In the ensuing skirmish, three Mexicans died. One corpse in ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

Readers respond to a librarian who wrote that listening to a book qualifies as reading. To the Editor: Re “Yes, Listening to a Book Counts as Reading,” by Brian Bannon (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 23): ...

A new season brings a whole host of incredible new books. Offerings include buzzy literary fiction novels, powerful memoirs and biographies, and stories that will stick with you long past the final ...

At the start of last summer, shortly after Kaitlyn Crockett moved to New York City, she opened her smartphone and searched ...