At a time when adult education is being digitized at breakneck speed, a counter-trend is asserting itself: that of a return to the body, to materiality and to objects as living supports for learning.

Sometimes a spoon is just a spoon. By Joshua David Stein Joshua David Stein’s children’s books include “Lunch From Home,” “What’s Cooking?” and “Solitary Animals.” The spoon’s best-known role in the ...

Since the 1960s, the reference book has cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. An Object Lesson. Millions of publications—not to mention spy documents ...

Around the world, the document establishes legal, social, and economic legitimacy. But it also makes compromises. An Object Lesson. Carl Linnaeus, the father of biological taxonomy, also had a hand in ...