SAFEAct.org makes writing to a representative user-friendly The SAFE Act, or Save America’s Forgotten Equines Act (HR 3475/S 2037), is a bill that’s been in the works for a few decades. 04/23/2024 - 8:59 am | View Link
‘I don’t want to end up with stalkers’: Should I let my heirs know that I’m writing a will and what they can expect to inherit? I ’ve finally decided to write a will, and I’m doing it with the help of an attorney. I will be dividing my estate between family and a couple of close friends. I don’t want to end up with stalkers, ... 04/23/2024 - 8:24 am | View Link
UNL to host several writing camps for students this summer Younger students ages 7 to 15 can sign up for the "I Love to Write" and "We Love to Write" camps hosted June 17-21 on UNL East Campus, which will be run by Lincoln Public Schools teachers and help ... 04/23/2024 - 8:00 am | View Link
David Nicholls’s secret formula to writing a hit modern romance If somebody had asked you a quarter of a century ago to name Britain’s most successful romantic novelist, your mind’s eye would have flooded with pink as you conjured up a vision of Dame Barbara ... 04/23/2024 - 7:00 am | View Link
‘Baby Reindeer’ Star Jessica Gunning Talks Mastering Accents & Her Debut Writing Credit On ‘The Outlaws’ Baby Reindeer star Jessica Gunning has been generating headlines aplenty for her creepy turn as Martha in Netflix’s stalking thriller series, but she’s imminently set to return to screens on both ... 04/23/2024 - 6:32 am | View Link
How to Improve Writing Skills in 15 Easy Steps | Grammarly 15 Practice, practice, practice! The ultimate way to improving writing is to learn what weakens it in the first place, and then set your mind to fixing (and eventually preventing) the glitches. The more you write, edit, and proofread, the better you get at it. 04/22/2024 - 7:12 am | View Link
7 Ways to Improve Your Writing Skills | Coursera Writing is a technical skill that you use to communicate effectively through the written word. Though these may vary depending on what you’re writing, there are several that transcend categories. Writing skills can more specifically include: Grammar. Vocabulary. Spelling. Sentence construction. Structure. Research and accuracy. Clarity ... 04/22/2024 - 3:09 am | View Link
30 Writing Tips to Help You Improve Your Writing Skills Karen Hertzberg. Updated on December 1, 2021 Writing Tips. Every day, you write, whether it’s a college paper, blog post, work document, email, or social media update. Your writing represents who you are personally and professionally, so it’s worth it to hone your skills. Here are thirty writing tips to help you communicate better in text. 04/21/2024 - 9:11 pm | View Link
Writing | LearnEnglish Here you can find activities to practise your writing skills. You can improve your writing by understanding model texts and how they're structured. The self-study lessons in this section are written and organised by English level based on the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR). 04/21/2024 - 4:10 pm | View Link
Welcome to the Purdue Online Writing Lab The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. 04/21/2024 - 5:05 am | View Link
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
Enlarge / A meeting of the UN Security Council on April 14. (credit: Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Wednesday that would have reaffirmed a nearly 50-year-old ban on placing weapons of mass destruction into orbit, two months after reports Russia has plans to do just that.
Russia's vote against the resolution was no surprise.
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Logitech announced a new mouse last week. A company rep reached out to inform Ars of Logitech’s “newest wireless mouse.” The gadget’s product page reads the same as of this writing.
I’ve had good experience with Logitech mice, especially wireless ones, one of which I'm using now.
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Trendy, unproven "vampire facials" performed at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico left at least three women with HIV infections. This marks the first time that cosmetic procedures have been associated with an HIV outbreak, according to a detailed report of the outbreak investigation published today.
Ars reported on the cluster last year when state health officials announced they were still identifying cases linked to the spa despite it being shut down in September 2018.
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HMD has been known as the manufacturer of Nokia-branded phones for years now, but now the company wants to start selling phones under its own brand. The first is the "HMD Pulse" line, a series of three low-end phones that are headed for Europe.
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In the world of AI, what might be called "small language models" have been growing in popularity recently because they can be run on a local device instead of requiring data center-grade computers in the cloud. On Wednesday, Apple introduced a set of tiny source-available AI language models called OpenELM that are small enough to run directly on a smartphone.