Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking about ...

I know of two kids in West Virginia schools – one in middle school and one in high school; one here and one in the Morgantown area – who have not been taught to write cursive and are being taught to ...

Red Bull exit, Adrian Newey will finally put “pencil on a piece of Aston Martin paper” as the design legend begins work on ...

If you can read cursive, you might just be able to help the National Park Service tackle a huge upcoming project. Here's how ...

I preach to my kids to expand their horizons and do things outside of their comfort zones, yet I have been happy behind a computer keyboard tapping out my thoughts and telling others’ stories for ...

For years, Missouri lawmakers have tried to make teaching cursive a requirement, but concerns regarding technology and ...

A new bill making its way through the New Jersey state legislature could require public schools to teach cursive writing from ...

It's not the first time a Pennsylvania lawmaker has proposed legislation that would mandate that cursive be taught in elementary schools.

In January 2012 I became Director of the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey. CVSSP is one of the largest UK research groups in Audio-Visual Machine ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

Digitizing the bee collections at museums could answer important questions like whether certain species are still buzzing in the same places they once were, or if their bodies have changed over time ...

The owners of peer-led support group 'Recovery Coach' Adrian and Sean have one core belief - anyone, no matter what their situation, can come back from addiction. Both men have previously struggled ...