National Mortgage Professional

The Mortgage Language You Use Every Day, But Never See: Understanding The MISMO Model Vs. MISMO Standards

Ask five mortgage professionals to define “MISMO,” and you’re likely to hear five different answers …Data format.Investor ...
TwistedSifter on MSN

Divorced man’s daughter made up her own language that she speaks with him, but she hasn’t taught the language to her mom

Are there deeper issues at mom's?
The 74 on MSN

Michigan school district embraces new approach to teaching kids to read

The students in Emily Hoard’s first-grade class trace letters in their sand trays, then break down the sounds the letters make in simple words. This is what the science of reading looks like as Hoard ...
The New Yorker

The Lovably Fragile Exes of “Is This Thing On?”

Bradley Cooper’s latest film, about separated spouses played by Laura Dern and Will Arnett, is scrappy but soul-nourishing.

The Bumpy Flight That Led Diane Keaton to Adopt a Child at 50

She worried that she was inadequate at love, until she became a mother. By Sasha Weiss ...

Marcia Marcus’s Art Was Ignored for Decades. She Kept Painting Anyway.

And she did. For the next seven decades, Marcus lived in Manhattan, and she painted. She painted as she raised her two ...
Communications of the ACM

Writing Good Definitions Comes Down to One Basic Rule

Viewed this way, a definition is a decision mechanism. It distinguishes some elements of the universe from the others. Hence ...