Today's Articles (5/6/2025)

Jun 05, 2025

Cheap and easy ways to stock your emergency go bag

• It can be hard to narrow down a list of personal items. So if it helps, pretend like you're packing for a weekend trip rather than "a Hollywood-style disaster," Provencio says. "Most likely, you'll be spending a couple of days at a friend's house away from the immediate hazard. So ask yourself: What would you need if you had to leave your house suddenly for a few days?

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College: ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

• The net effect seems, if not quite Wall-E, at least a dramatic reorganization of a person’s efforts and abilities, away from high-effort inquiry and fact-gathering and toward integration and verification.

• “Learning math is working on your ability to systematically go through a process to solve a problem. Even if you’re not going to use algebra or trigonometry or calculus in your career, you’re going to use those skills to keep track of what’s up and what’s down when things don’t make sense,” said Michael Johnson, an associate provost at Texas A&M University.

• Hm. Looks like the math thing totally flew over my head.

• Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has tended to brush off concerns about AI use in academia as shortsighted, describing ChatGPT as merely “a calculator for words” and saying the definition of cheating needs to evolve.

The truth about salt: how to avoid one of the world’s biggest hidden killers

• Unlike, say, excess sugar, which can cause tooth decay, weight gain, skin problems and mood swings, the effects of too much salt are hidden.