As the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas heads into our twentieth anniversary year (the EOA debuted online in May 2006), we thought we’d share some numbers from the past year.

In 2025, the CALS EOA had a total of 2.3 million sessions, 2.3 million users engaged, and 3.4 million page views. That’s an average of about 200,000 sessions,

As I type these words, there is a button for the Microsoft Copilot, the company’s AI “assistant,” lurking in the bottom right-hand corner of my screen—its rainbow color a bright contrast to everything else on my screen, just begging to be engaged.

Do you see it? Microsoft would be delighted for me to click on that and make some use of that feature,

A leaf found on the ground captures the imagination of a six-year-old, who examines the colors, the shape, the texture, and the touch. The nourishment of this leaf came from the tree as it transported water and minerals from its roots to the leaf. The leaf produces food for the tree through a process called photosynthesis.