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A heart-to-heart for young people. Art by Addie Martin. Over the last few months, a new meme format has arisen that further accentuates a hallmark of online Gen Z culture: an avoidance of direct language. “The lion does not concern himself with …” and an even broader version, “The lion …,” are two phrases that have been recently popularized into a meme online, often followed by a statement describing something that the person who created the meme does.  This phrasing and usag

Students may be getting more information from artificial intelligence like ChatGPT than textbooks recently. Photo by Sofie Szigeti. When ChatGPT-3.5 was released in November of 2022, it was immediately clear that education would change forever. It sparked dramatic headlines speculating the effect of the program on higher education, such as “The College Essay Is Dead”  from The Atlantic , and opened a world of untapped possibilities for cheating, plagiarism and rampant misinfo

The consequences of playing too many tabletop roleplaying games. Art by Basil Allen. The most famous Tabletop Role-Playing Game (often referred to as TTRPGs), so ubiquitous to the genre it overshadows others in almost every conversation, is Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), with players nowadays usually diving into its 5th edition. However, the high fantasy D&D offers is just one of many kinds of narratives tabletop RPGs can tell, and with Halloween coming up soon, the time is neve