Cracking the code: How a “prediction machine” is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Some years ago, my linguistic research team and I started to develop a computational tool aimed at reconstructing the text of ...

A Historian Was Reading a 500-Year-Old Book—and Found Galileo’s Handwritten Notes

Handwriting analysis determined that the famed astronomer made notes in this copy of the ancient Greek text in the 1590s, decades before his own observations via telescope revolutionized our ...

Archaeologists May Have Discovered the Oldest Form of Writing—Ever

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system ...
Greek Reporter

Is Xenophon the Founder of Tachygraphy?

Xenophon’s tachygraphy captured Socratic dialogues, influencing Greek shorthand and ensuring the preservation of the spoken ...

AI was eroding trust in my classroom — so I got rid of typed papers and bought my students notebooks instead

This semester, I've bought my students notebooks. Instead of submitting typed papers online, they'll be journaling by hand.

Inside OpenAI’s fast-growing Codex: The people building the AI that codes alongside you

Insiders reveal how OpenAI’s rapidly growing coding agent works, why developers are delegating tasks to it, and what it means ...
Science Daily

40,000-year-old signs show humans were recording information long before writing

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...
CNN

Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis. The marks, found on 260 artifacts ...
New York Post

Scientists discover oldest form of writing in mysterious Stone Age engravings

Stone Age artifacts discovered in a German cave could push back the origins of writing by 30,000 years. willbrasil - stock.adobe.com The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave ...
New Scientist

Stone Age symbols may push back the earliest form of writing

Stone Age people 40,000 years ago used a simple form of writing comparable in complexity to the earliest stages of the world’s first writing system, cuneiform, according to a study of mysterious signs ...
IFLScience

These Hunter-Gatherers Developed A System Of Written Signs Thousands Of Years Before Writing Was Invented

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...
The Herald-Times

‘Writing System Institute’ New Name for Legacy Writing Training Business

A legacy family business takes on a new name as the next generation continues its mission of training professionals how to write better, faster. Especially now, as people try to throw generative AI at ...