Planetizen

AI promises to finally make public engagement meaningful. We put it to the test.

Everything you need to know about how we analyzed the 13,000+ comments submitted in the federal government’s request for ...
Saints Wire

The very greedy python: Children's book finds new meaning in Florida

Eric Carle's 'The Greedy Python' offers a lesson on greed that resonates with Florida's invasive snake crisis.
Opinion
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Positive life events shape youth development more than previously thought

A recent study provides evidence that when young people are asked to describe the most important events in their lives, they predominantly focus on positive, everyday milestones rather than major ...
Fabbaloo

Text-To-CAD Is Getting More Real, But It’s Not There Yet.

Text-to-CAD tools are beginning to generate useful 3D models from prompts, but the most important missing feature is not geometry — it is intent.
Android Police

I write hundreds of words a day for a living, and this is the only text editor I will recommend

Jon Gilbert is a Features Writer for Android Police. I've covered Android since 2021, focusing on writing features and guides about Android apps and features that directly affect users. I've attended ...
InfoWorld

Write cleaner and faster Python code

Check out Python’s powerful new linters and profiling tools, and learn how virtual environments can save you time and trouble ...
Chicago Tribune

Record 8,000 pounds of pythons pulled from southwest Florida using sex drive

Biologists at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida removed 8,080 pounds of invasive Burmese pythons from the outskirts of Naples in just six months. The haul — 177 snakes in total — beats their ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic

Sequoyah’s syllabary faced suspicion initially, but after a demonstration, his version of “talking leaves” was widely embraced. And then the word spread ...
People

Burmese Python Found with 20 Eggs Under Florida Sidewalk: 'They Are Not Native to Our Area and Are Disrupting the Ecosystem'

The reptiles, native to Southeast Asia, are considered an invasive species, and state law requires them to be euthanized after capture Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined ...
WLRN

Florida Python Challenge returns in July with $25,000 in prizes for Everglades hunt

Registration is open for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition that offers participants a shot at $25,000 in prizes for removing invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades. The ...
The Atlantic

America Has a Pangram Problem

Basically every recent, high-profile accusation of someone passing off AI-generated writing as their own has started in the same way: with a tool called Pangram. In March, when a horror novel from a ...

The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI

Now some authors tell me they’ve embraced AI as a “writing tool,” no different from spell-check or a laptop. The phrase is protean and euphemistic, covering everything from using ChatGPT to find a ...