After a full year of hectic news, original trends and nonstop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word: “slop.” On Dec. 15, Merriam-Webster announced “slop” as the 2025 Word of ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. — Wednesday night, the shelves were bare again at the Salvation Army of Jefferson County — but this time, for all the right reasons. A year after a fire destroyed their food ...

Interest Rate Probability Distributions Implied by Derivatives Prices is a daily measure of the distribution of future short-term interest rates, calculated from prices of fixed-income derivatives ...

Forecasting the weather is by nature an imprecise science, and that’s why we use probability when determining the likelihood of rain, snow, or otherwise. “Probability of Precipitation” is what that ...

Plenty of aid and uncollected food is rotting on the Gazan side of the border because the UN is unwilling to deliver it. Humanitarian aid waiting to be picked up on the Palestinian side of the Kerem ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

After years behind a paywall, Lena Dunham and Alissa Bennett’s “The C-Word” podcast is breaking free. Radio broadcast and podcast company Audacy inked a deal with Dunham and Bennett to handle sales ...

Do you sense something problematic about the word “problematic”? The way it’s used has changed a great deal in recent years, so much that it can now seem a little shifty. The journey that brought us ...

U.N. trucks delivering food to Gaza were stopped and looted overnight, Gaza residents and merchants said on Wednesday, hours after desperate Palestinians overran a distribution site run by a ...

May 27 (UPI) --Thousands swarmed two food distribution sites in Gaza on the first day that a U.S.-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began delivering humanitarian assistance on Tuesday. A new ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...