How to Instill a Love of Learning in Students

I spent nearly every Saturday lunchtime in March and April with a bunch of strangers on Zoom. There were about 12 of us—a young man from Madrid, a middle-aged woman with a cat, a mother with a child who sometimes made an appearance in her home office. I couldn’t tell you how they made a […]

Jewish Studies Weighs How to Move Forward Post–Oct. 7

The University of Denver’s Center for Judaic Studies has long wanted to hire a Holocaust studies professor to support its decades-old Holocaust education programming. Now it’s getting one—a new endowed professorship in Holocaust and antisemitism awareness. The new role, linking Holocaust and antisemitism studies, was born out of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on […]

How to understand the basics of investing? Think about a herd of cows

Dear Nancy, I’m a new investor and I am just starting to earn money and save. Can you please explain the basics of how a person can make money through investing? Olivia Dear Olivia, There are two basic ways money makes money. Income, be it interest from a bank account, GIC, bond, etc – and […]

John Whyte: How to google your symptoms without freaking out

Why does searching your symptoms online always leave you more frightened than before? As former chief medical officer of WebMD, physician John Whyte spent years believing more information meant better health — until he saw how too much of it was making people spiral. In a world of health influencers, algorithms and AI tools designed […]

Here’s how to fix the University of California’s admissions process

More transparency in the admissions process would benefit applicants to UC Berkeley and the entire University of California system. Yalonda M. James/S.F. Chronicle University of California admissions decisions are out. Some 200,000 applicants and their families are finally seeing the results of a process whose rules are unwritten, whose scoring is secret, and whose outcomes […]

How to apply for Housing Benefit, Local Housing Allowance and Council Tax Support

Please note Since the introduction of Universal Credit, new claims for Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance can only be made if you are of state pension age (from 15 May 2019, both members of a couple must be of pension age) or if you live in supported accommodation. Housing Benefit If you live in a council or […]