I moved to Spain without even knowing basic Spanish. It's been a challenging year, but I hope to stick around.

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I fell in love with Spain and decided to move there without even knowing its local language.

Leslie Keener

'Jestermaxxing' is taking over the internet — and someone's making money

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Jestermaxxing is the hot new internet trend.

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14 slang words Gen Zers are using in 2025 — and what they mean

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Two teenagers look at a phone on a bus.

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What’s the Newest Language?

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Researchers in Antarctica developed a strange accent after being isolated for 6 months

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A research station is being visited by a dozen or so people in yellow jackets.
A stock image shows a base in Antartica. This base Argentina's Almirante Brown, in Paradise Harbour, and is unrelated to the story.

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Forget Sam Altman. America's greatest AI visionary is... an English professor in Illinois

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Ted Underwood
Our greatest AI visionary isn't Sam Altman or Bill Gates. It's Ted Underwood, an English professor at the University of Illinois.

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How can you tell if someone isn’t really into doing you a favor?

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Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down
Every two minutes or so, all over the world, someone asks someone else for a small favor. and all over the world, almost everyone says yes. All the time.

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How humans behave during natural disasters

You can earn up to $25 an hour training AI to write better in other languages

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Scale AI job listing for AI Training for Spanish Writers
Scale AI is looking for writers to train AI models to become better writers.

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An Air Canada passenger says he was left furious after being served in business class by a flight attendant who didn't speak French

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Air Canada plane
The passenger was flying on Air Canada from Quebec City to Florida.

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Worf's Picard Calmness Was Inspired by the Star Trek Spinoff Michael Dorn Always Wanted

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While Worf was never quite the always-angry kind of Klingon in Star Trek—to give him that push and pull between his people’s warrior culture and his place within Starfleet—the version of him we’ve now met in Picard’s

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