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Why We Love Horror Stories: A Psychological and Historical Dissection
Horror stories shouldn’t exist. At least, not if you believe humans are rational creatures who seek safety, warmth, and reassurance. Why on earth would we gather around fires (literal or digital) to frighten ourselves? Why pay money to watch something that spikes our heart rates and curdles our sleep? The paradox is ancient. From medieval…
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Have We Already Entered the “Dead Internet”?
Sometimes the internet doesn’t feel human anymore. Your TikTok feed, your comment section, your Twitter replies—it all looks eerily … synthetic. This uncanny sense isn’t just your imagination. It’s the creepy premise of the Dead Internet Theory: the idea that most of the web has been quietly taken over by bots, algorithms, and AI—leaving few…
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30 First Grade Math Games That Actually Engage (and Sometimes Trick) Your Students
First grade math is where numbers stop being just squiggles on a page and start turning into tools. But “practice your addition facts” is about as inspiring as a trip to the dentist. Games are the secret: they make fluency feel like play. Here are 30 ways to sneak math into joy. Movement-Based Games (7…
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50 Sanity-Saving Indoor Recess Ideas for Teachers (That Actually Let You Breathe)
Let’s be honest: indoor recess is the school-day equivalent of a partial power outage. The kids are restless, the energy is crackling, and that circle of silence lasts about as long as a wet paper towel. But what if indoor recess could be something other than a symbolic apology for bad weather? What if it…
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Quiet Quitting: Nothing New Except the Branding
Every few months, corporate media stumbles across an old labor practice, slaps a new label on it, and acts like it just discovered fire. “Quiet quitting” was 2022’s viral phrase for something workers have been doing for centuries: giving only as much labor as they’re paid for. Michael Hiltzik’s Los Angeles Times column argued the…
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Sabina Nessa: A Kind and Generous Soul, and the Story Britain Can’t Stop Forgetting
When 28-year-old teacher Sabina Nessa walked through Cator Park in southeast London in September 2021, she should have arrived at a pub five minutes later. She never did. Her murder became another entry in Britain’s grim ledger of women killed in everyday moments—walking home, going for a run, taking the shortcut everyone takes. A Life,…