After after a snowy Friday night and a cold, slippery Saturday morning, 10-year-old Keira Hanson discovered too late that her dance class had been canceled. She’d been dropped off at class ...

From time to time, I wonder how I’d respond to that famous little girl, Virginia, who wrote to New York’s Sun in 1897 asking, “Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?” The ...

While Waiting turns life's most frustrating moments into an ingenious puzzle game that's more emotional than you'd expect.

A dozen writers from The Kansas City Star and The Philadelphia Inquirer go head-to-head in a Super Bowl showdown of words and ...

Where does fear come from? American psychologist John Watson wanted to find out — so, in the name of science, he tried to ...

The absence of a “Santa Claus rally” does not doom the U.S. stock market in 2025. The period from Christmas through the second trading day of January marks the traditional definition of the ...

It got me thinking about my own stories ... worthiness and deservingness, Santa Claus and sinfulness, nirvana and nothingness, perfectionism and procrastination, and lots of other things that have no ...

A brush fire started up Wednesday evening in an area of Santa Paula between the Santa Clara River and Highway 126. The blaze was first reported shortly before 7 p.m. in the 600 block of Acacia Road.

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Back in December, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking was announced as Google’s first reasoning model and an updated experimental version is now available to test. We’ve also enabled code execution as ...

The good news is that there are lots of researchers out there testing interventions that can help parents encourage critical thinking — for both kids as young as three to pre-teens and adolescents.