FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 3 | History Defined

A $10 Monthly Charge Costs More Than You Think When You Keep It for Years

A $10 monthly charge barely feels like spending money anymore, especially when it automatically disappears from a checking account or credit card. But the math becomes harder to ignore when that small payment continues for years alongside streaming services, apps, memberships, cloud storage, and other recurring expenses. Ten dollars every…

Budget and the Bees · Sep 12

American schools weren’t broken until Silicon Valley used a lie to convince them they were—now reading and math scores are plummeting

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath warns the U.S.’s $30 billion bet on laptops in schools has made Gen Zers less cognitively capable than their parents.

Fortune · Sep 12

Mathematicians vs AI war erupts: Why top maths medal winners are revolting against OpenAI and other AI companies

Twenty-five Fields Medal winners, including Terence Tao, have warned that the AI industry's race to solve major mathematical problems could harm the field by prioritising speed and headline-making breakthroughs over human understanding, collaboration and rigorous verification.

The Economic Times · Sep 12

OpenAI says its models solved one of math's hardest problems as researchers cry foul

US tech giant OpenAI on Tuesday said it had solved one of the hardest problems in mathematics with an unreleased artificial intelligence model after just 88 hours – and millions of dollars' worth of computing power. But a US mathematician and a researcher at rival Anthropic allege that OpenAI only…

France 24 · Sep 9

OpenAI Cracked a $1 Million Math Problem With 10,000 AI Agents, Rival Mathematicians Now Cry Foul

OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents cracked a $1 million Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours, but rival mathematicians accuse it of racing on their unpublished work and question data safety.

International Business Times UK · Sep 9

Global Education Rankings: U.S. Hits Record Low in Reading While Multiple Latin American Nations Stumble

PISA 2025 posted record-low reading scores worldwide. See Latin America's ranking, Argentina's math collapse, and the literacy paradox behind it.

Latin Times · Sep 9

Woman Buys Ford Explorer. Then They Refuse To Put The Numbers In Writing: ‘They’re Trapping You’

"Respectfully your math ain’t mathing."

Motor1 · Sep 8

Meet Rachel Chen, 18, who won $100K for her breakthrough quantum math research using simple diagrams

Rachel Chen, an 18-year-old Los Angeles student, won $100,000 at the Regeneron Science Talent Search for expanding a 1997 mathematical idea involving Temperley-Lieb diagrams. Her research offers a visual way to describe complex quantum particle systems and spin representations, potentially helping researchers better understand connections between different quantum-mechanical states.

The Times of India · Sep 8

The Cheapest Vegetable to Grow Isn’t Always the One With the Cheapest Seeds

A seed packet that costs a couple of dollars can look like a garden bargain, but the cheapest seeds do not always produce the cheapest vegetables. A crop can demand more water, fertilizer, garden space, support, pest control, or time than another vegetable with a slightly pricier packet. That changes…

Frugal Gardening · Sep 8

Australia’s classroom disruption among worst in world, prompting calls for ‘digital detox’

Public school students are the equivalent of two and a half years behind their independent peers, as global Pisa ranking report shows decline in reading and maths

The Guardian - AU · Sep 8