Simon Farnaby: ‘I told the late Queen she was a good actress. She thought I was a complete idiot’

The Paddington star on updating Enid Blyton, ruffling royal feathers – and his urge to put Timothée Chalamet in ballet shoes ...
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Lawmakers pass cursive writing requirement, send bill to DeSantis to sign (in cursive)

Injury crash closes section of South Dixie Highway near Puritan Road in West Palm Beach A stretch of South Dixie Highway is closed in both directions after an injury crash near Puritan Road in West ...
Yahoo

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Correction: A previous version of this article misspelled the first name of the high school junior who said she uses an AI tool in ...
The Atlantic

Does Writing Have to Be Hard?

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...
Fast Company

AI didn’t kill customer support. It’s rebuilding it

A few months ago, I walked into the office of one of our customers, a publicly traded vertical software company with tens of thousands of small business customers. I expected to meet a traditional ...
Deadline.com

Shawn Ryan On Why He Didn’t Write Script For S3 Of ‘The Night Agent’, “Devastating” Trend Of Writers Not Producing & Pain Of “Buyer’s Market” For Talent

As creator of The Night Agent, Shawn Ryan, who adapted the Netflix series from Matthew Quirk’s novel of the same name, wrote the pilot script, which became the series premiere. He also wrote Episode 2 ...
The New Yorker

Molly Aitken on the Rajneesh Movement and Our Need for Connection

Your story “This Is How It Happens” revolves around a young Scottish man in the early nineteen-eighties, who is befriended by some followers of Rajneesh and travels to Oregon to join the commune there ...
New York Post

Gov. Phil Murphy mandates teaching cursive writing in NJ schools as one of his last acts

New Jersey is flipping the script and ordering its public schools to bring back cursive writing starting next fall. In one of his final acts as governor, Phil Murphy on Monday signed legislation ...
NJ.com

Cursive handwriting is back from the dead. N.J. schools now must teach it in grades 3-5.

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A new state law signed Monday ...
WBUR

What knitting taught me about how to begin

All metaphors about knitting and writing have already been made: storytellers and knitters both spin yarns, tie up loose ends and hunt for new material. The vocabulary of each is tangled up in the ...
Sports Illustrated

From Eight-Man QB to Cowboy: Boydstun Commits to Oklahoma State

Bodie Boydstun's improbable journey from an eight-man football standout at a small Oklahoma high school to earning a commitment from Oklahoma State University stands as a testament to perseverance, ...