On March 25, 2025, Wesleyan University Press (WesPress) published Rachel Trousdale’s “Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem,” the inaugural winner of its Cardinal Poetry Prize. The collection ...

And, like science, art can be learned. So, today I want to share five key characteristics of persuasive blog posts and a simple five-paragraph template for creating your own persuasive blog posts.

Yet, it’s worth considering why some readers remain disenchanted with such a formula. Consider the five-paragraph essay. American writing standards once lauded the strict five-paragraph structure — ...

Mind mapping is a useful study tool for a lot of people, but creating those maps can be tedious. MindMeister takes a lot of ...

A blast at a mine in Spain’s northern Asturias region has killed at least five workers and injured four others, according to local emergency services. The accident occurred Monday morning at the ...

Ser Serpas, a trash-art “assemblagist” who has been in the Whitney Biennial, takes her pick of New York’s litter, ahead of a new show at MOMA PS1. Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the ...

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“Restaurant operators know consumers are very sensitive to costs and have kept menu price increases to 30 percent, while their food costs have gone up 40 percent in the last five years ...