Remember when reading was a hobby?

Regionally, Malaysian students, compared with their peers, are starting from a position of strength when it comes to reading habits, yet a recent Financial Industry Collective Outreach (Finco) report ...
IEEE

A Self-Learning Discrete Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Energy-Efficient Distributed Heterogeneous L-R Fuzzy Welding Shop Scheduling Problem

Abstract: With the tendency of decentralization into factories, production scheduling among heterogeneous factories has become a prominent concern in industrial demand response, spurring research on ...
Daily Excelsior

VC JU releases self learning material manual of CDOE

JAMMU, Jan 12: Jammu University Vice-Chancellor, Prof Umesh Rai today released the Self Learning Material (SLM) manual of the Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE), JU. While releasing the ...
Sports Illustrated

Bill Self’s Tenure at Kansas May Be Nearing Its Final Chapter

It has become increasingly evident in recent years that Kansas basketball is no longer the unstoppable force it once was prior to its national championship run in 2022. The Jayhawks have now finished ...
The Economist

What self-help books tell us about ourselves

To understand modern self-help books, open “Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm”. The sequel to “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”—and no doubt the prequel to ...
Law

Rodriguez v. Lakeshore Learning Materials LLC

Lakeshore Learning Materials was hit with a digital privacy lawsuit on Dec. 2 in California Superior Court for San Diego County over allegations it secretly installed tracking technology on its ...
InfoWorld

Meta’s SPICE framework pushes AI toward self-learning without human supervision

The new reinforcement learning system lets large language models challenge and improve themselves using real-world data instead of curated training sets. Meta researchers have unveiled a new ...
The New York Times

Is Today’s Self-Help Teaching Everyone to Be a Jerk?

Draw boundaries. Protect your peace. Worry less about pleasing others. The prevailing (and best-selling) wisdom of the day encourages an inward turn. By Emma Goldberg There’s a certain flavor of ...
EurekAlert!

Machine learning ushers in a new era for advanced nuclear materials research

Shanghai, August 21, 2025 — Nuclear energy is widely recognized as one of the most promising clean energy sources for the future, but its safe and efficient use depends critically on the development ...
New Atlas

Self-sabotage: The science behind knowingly engaging in harmful behavior

Why do some people keep making the same harmful choices, even when they know better? A global study has revealed three distinct decision-making types and why punishment doesn’t work for everyone. When ...
Yahoo

Scientists make incredible breakthrough with 'self-healing' building material: 'Extensively investigated for more than three decades'

Next-gen concrete may have skin-like qualities if Texas A&M experts successfully bring their self-repairing product to market. The researchers have developed a synthetic lichen that can fix cracks in ...