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Teenager Wins Top Young Scientist Award for Creating AI Handheld Pesticide Detector

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Teenager Wins Top Young Scientist Award for Creating AI Handheld Pesticide Detector

3M and Discovery Education have announced the winner of the 2024 3M Young Scientist Challenge, Sirish Subash, a 9th grader from Georgia. Sirish impressed the judges with his AI handheld pesticide detector, winning a $25,000 cash prize and the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.” Sirish competed against nine other finalists over four months before … Read more

Karl Ove Knausgård reflects on the book that had a profound impact on him as a teenager: ‘The History of Bestiality’.

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Karl Ove Knausgård reflects on the book that had a profound impact on him as a teenager: ‘The History of Bestiality’.

My earliest reading memoryOne of the most fascinating books from my childhood was Gangles by Ronald McCuaig. It featured a wild girl from Australia who could balance on the water spray exhaled by a whale, traveling around with the whale. Reading this book at the age of six was a magical experience that still amazes … Read more