Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. Whether your New Year’s resolution was to lock in this semester, ...

Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to supply NYC for 800 years Gold and silver’s $7 trillion wipeout delivers a painful lesson about ...

Evidence integration is central to argumentative writing, yet the relationships between different evidence functions and L2 writing quality across proficiency levels remain under-examined. Using an ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. To find the size or length of a Java array, follow these four steps Declare a variable of type ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Instance main methods and unnamed classes, coming in Java 21, will forever change how developers ...

In the hallowed halls of comic book history, few figures loom larger than Stan Lee, the charismatic mastermind behind Marvel’s rise to prominence in the 1960s. While Lee’s bombastic personality and ...