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Universities are among the most age-segregated of institutions, catering almost exclusively to young people in their late teens and early 20s, even as new demographic realities render this educational ...

Dive into the world of deep learning and discover the inner workings of neural networks, the driving force behind modern AI and machine learning. What is Deep Learning? Deep learning is a subfield of ...

For me, making new gardens is always a delightful process, especially since I have figured out how to make truly sustainable landscapes. I came about my somewhat novel ideas by making dozens of ...

IOWA CITY - If you don't know much about the late black playwright and poet August Wilson before stepping into his world at Riverside Theatre, you will walk away breathless after seeing his life ...

What is the best way to learn something new? Most of us think repetition is the ticket: drills and practice, and a blizzard of PowerPoint slides on a single subject. The more condensed the training, ...