Nicole Kowrach grew up traveling from Michigan to the Chicago area to visit museums. But she only began considering working in a museum as a college student, after she switched her focus from biology ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached an initial rampdown phase for bug fixes, with the feature set now frozen. The following 10 features are ...

Hamcrest is based on the concept of a matcher, which can be a very natural way of asserting whether or not the result of a test is in a desired state. If you have not used Hamcrest, examples in this ...

Do you sense something problematic about the word “problematic”? The way it’s used has changed a great deal in recent years, so much that it can now seem a little shifty. The journey that brought us ...

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Mark Turin receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo. Ross Perlin has received funding from the National Science ...

Florida arts and culture organizations, still struggling to recover after the COVID pandemic, took another unexpected financial hit when Gov. Ron DeSantis eliminated most state funding for cultural ...

You may not have heard, but Barbie and Oppenheimer—two very different movies—are releasing on the same day. After you’ve gotten over that glitter-filled bombshell, you might wonder why two buzzy, ...

Gearing up for a trip? Here's how to say "hello" in different languages spoken around the world. When traveling, even a basic knowledge of the local language can help you connect with people and ...

Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version of this story contained inaccurate or incomplete facts about the history of language. Language is an essential part of human communication, allowing ...

With her flower crown and grass skirt, the hula girl has been synonymous with Hawaiian hospitality since cruise ships first docked in Honolulu in the 1920s. Even today, exoticized images of these ...