Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Education
Write 500 Words, Get Into College: Common Application Sets Essay Length Limit
Call it an exercise in brevity.
Wednesday Words: Weinergate, Socks, and the End of Humanity
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Supreme Court: California Can Offer In-State College Tuition to Illegal Immigrants
In a win for immigrants rights groups, on Monday the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a California law that grants in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.
Far-Reaching Faith: Poll Shows 9 out of 10 Americans Believe in God
America’s first colonists were a religious lot. Three-and-a-half centuries later, not much has changed: more than 9 in 10 Americans still say they believe in God, according to a new Gallup poll.
Is This Four-Year-Old Artist the Next Picasso?
Mastering abstract expressionism and surrealism is an ambitious project for any aspiring painter. But not for a little 4-year-old Australian girl. Dubbed the next Picasso, Aelita Andre opened her first art exhibition The Prodigy …
National Spelling Bee: Scenes from the Semi-Finals
Just up the street from the National Harbor in Maryland, America’s fiercest young spellers are battling for the honor of being the country’s top letter-wielder. NewsFeed filed a dispatch from the semi-finals.
Save the Frogs: California High School Bans Dissections
Kids, step away from the scalpels.
Fellowship Pays Students $100,000 To Not Attend College
In an apparent hunt for the next Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates (both famously college dropouts), Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, will pay 24 college-aged students $100,000 to not attend college for two years. Instead, the …
Headmaster Reverses Decision: James Tate Can Go To Prom
James Tate was suspended—and thus banned from prom—for posting an elaborate prom invitation on his high school’s building. But the world rallied behind him and his headmaster, sticking firmly to her decision as recently as …
Is College Too Pricey To Pay Off? 57% of Americans Say Yes
A Pew Research Center report titled “Is College Worth It?” released Sunday shows a majority of Americans think colleges fail to deliver enough bang for their buck.
Stressful Superlative: Is There a ‘Most Likely to Succeed’ Curse?
It’s the time of year when thousands of high school students around the U.S. will be voted “most likely to succeed.” But is such an accolade actually a curse?