The Literature of Cootie Catchers
There are soothsayers in the back of the school bus. Their hands move in familiar patterns: they fold a piece of notebook paper in half, then...
Time and Gravity Hit the Open Road
Equations of a Falling Body Time drove down the street in her vintage Volkswagen Beetle, her best friend Gravity in the passenger seat. The top was...
7 Novels Set in Deserts
I come from Moreno Valley—brown valley—in an area of California known colloquially as the Inland Empire, located three hours from Vegas, and two from the border....
Code with Google helps more students learn to code
Melissa Schonig is a fifth-grade English and Language Arts (ELA) teacher at Lynhaven Elementary School where 40-50 percent of students are Latino, and many don’t have...
Echo devices, Roborock vacuums, and more deals for July 7
Even if you don’t have an Echo, you can’t go anywhere without hearing about Alexa. At this rate, there’s no way you aren’t just a little...
MoviePass sent to nice farm upstate with app updates, lots of room to run
As anyone who tried to use subscription movie service MoviePass to duck into the theaters this holiday weekend—and we’re aware that that’s a proposition that hinges...
New YA Comics Coming Out July–September 2019
Welcome to your quarterly round up of YA comics coming out in the next three months! July–September is looking great for YA graphic novels, memoirs, and...
Quiz: Original Jeeves and Wooster Quote or Quote from Homage?
P.G. Wodehouse, author of many stories about Blandings Castle and other comic/idyllic places, is best known for his Jeeves and Wooster tales. His style has often...
10 Black Princess Books to Celebrate Halle Bailey as Ariel
On July 3rd, the media reported the fantastic news that Halle Bailey will be playing Ariel in the upcoming live-action Disney film The Little Mermaid. I’m so...
What Is a Deepfake, and Should I Be Concerned?
meyer_solutions/Shutterstock We tend to trust the content of video and audio recordings. But with AI, anyone’s face or voice can be recreated with pin-point accuracy. The...
