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A Florida School District Removed Dictionaries from Libraries. Here's Why
Snopes via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMichael M. Santiago/Getty Images In January 2024, reports emerged that a Florida school district had...
Encyclopedia Britannica plots $1bn stock market listing
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 3 months agoEncyclopædia Britannica is preparing to join the US stock market with a hoped-for $1bn (£850m)...
5 Habits That Have Been Wiped Out By The Internet
HuffPost Life via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThere’s no question that the internet has made life easier. But it also has wiped out a lot of personal habits, some of which might have been...
A comedian born in 1997 is baffled by how people coped before Google, and 'older people' are rushing...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 9 months agoOne user recalled her mother telling her to look answers to her questions up in the dictionary or in...
The birth of the emoticon: How emojis, a fixture of online life, began 40 years ago today
Miami Herald via AOL· 2 years agoIn the early days of the internet, computer scientist Scott Fahlman ran into a problem on Carnegie...
Scripps National Spelling Bee: What to know, how to watch, stream 2024 competition
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoBrush off the dictionaries and fasten the bifocals – it's officially "Bee Week." The 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee returns to the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National ...
Encyclopaedia Britannica Seeks Capital to Repay Safra’s Debt
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 2 weeks ago(Bloomberg) -- Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., the publisher of the namesake encyclopedia and the...
What Happened When Computers Learned How to Read
Time via Yahoo News· 4 months agoCredit - Getty Images Computers love to read. And it isn’t just fiction before going to bed. They read greedily: all literature, all of the time—novels,...
National Doughnut (or Donut) Day: Which spelling is right? Dictionaries have an answer.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 week agoPastry purveyors around the country are celebrating a favorite American treat on Friday, resurfacing an age-old spelling kerfuffle. Is it "doughnut" or "donut"? Many dictionaries take the middle ...
12 Boomer Skills That Are (Sadly) Obsolete Today
MediaFeed via AOL· 1 month agoDisobeyArt/istockphoto Will we miss them when they're gone? Our Gen Z kids and grandkids are digital natives. They can convey nuance in their text...