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BECKERMAN: Tying one on

I am a scarf person, but I am married to a non-scarf person. Conversely, my husband is a hat person, and I am not a hat person. He says scarves are itchy and make him look like he has no chin. I say hats ruin my hair and make my head look like Charlie Brown's. So whenever it gets cold out, he ...

JOECKS: How AI undermines education

If you want to develop human intelligence, you can't let students rely on artificial intelligence. Generative AI will transform the world, even if no one is quite sure what the end product will look like. These are artificial intelligence programs that create new content based on prompts or ...

Polar freeze: Annual Pond Town Polar Plunge discontinued in 2026

The 11th annual Pond Town Polar Plunge, a growing New Year's Day tradition where people jump into the Salem Pond, will not take place Thursday, organizer Jefferson Chase announced Monday.  Chase, a Salem native who started the plunge in 2015, said he is discontinuing the event because, for ...

BARONE: In a gloomy winter, read a couple of classic books

After Christmas is over, and the sunrises start getting earlier and the sunsets later in the Northern Hemisphere, there are still two months of scarce daylight and lowering skies ahead. Here's a suggestion for how to fill the gloomy hours with uplift: read. Read some great books, returning ...