What I Found Interesting: November 18, 2025

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A Detroit, Michigan fifth-grader’s float design debuts in America’s Thanksgiving Day parade, birds showing signs of recovery, and how speaking multiple languages seems to slow aging are a few of the interesting stories I’ve read and enjoyed in the past month.

I hope you enjoy them, too!

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Improving Your Writing: What Is Singular They?

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When we’re taught writing, we learn about pronouns: “he,” “she,” “you”, and “they.”

And when I was growing up in school, “you” and “they” were the pronouns we used when we didn’t want to refer to a specific gender.

“You” was used to refer to one person, “they” referred to more than one person.

But that’s changed recently, as “they” is slowly becoming the accepted word to refer to someone in a gender-neutral way.

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How to Change Language of Live Captions in Twitter Spaces

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When Stéphanie Walter asked on Twitter if anyone knew how to change the live captions language of Twitter Spaces from English to another language, I was curious.

I knew Twitter Spaces announced live captions in 2021 and I knew it supported captions in multiple languages.

But I didn’t remember anything about how to change live captions to a different language.

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