Baboons read four letter words
Valerie Merians
“A group of baboons has learned to discriminate real English words from non-words just by looking at them written down,” according to a report in the New Scientist. In a… Read more »
“A group of baboons has learned to discriminate real English words from non-words just by looking at them written down,” according to a report in the New Scientist. In a… Read more »
The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project has released a lengthy study of changing American reading habits with some surprising findings. The 68-page report, “The Rise of e-Reading,”… Read more »
Writer Clive Thompson — a regular contributor to Wired and the New York Times Magazine and one of those people generally treated like a guru when it comes to the… 4 / Read more »
Forty-five years ago Oxford University Press published the first edition of William H. McNeill’s survey, A World History. It’s still in print. Now in its fourth edition, the book has… Read more »
A shocking expose in the Guardian reveals the answer to the question you’ve no doubt asked yourself — trembling — many times: Is reading in the loo dangerous to your… Read more »
A British study has found that “Becoming engrossed in a good book or a crossword really can block the ability to hear,” says a report in the Daily Mail. According… Read more »
“While Amazon announced last week that it now sells more e-books than printed ones, plenty of readers still prefer the old-fashioned printed page to an electronic screen, and for good… 2 / Read more »
A new study by education publishers Pearson has cast fresh light on the struggle to get boys to love reading. The publisher commissioned the study of 500 English teachers across… Read more »
As someone with a terrible memory for faces I was oddly comforted (and slightly disturbed) to read this New Scientist article (via The Rumpus) which suggests that the human ability… 4 / Read more »
Science News (via, via) reports that typists have two neural systems that check for typos when they write. The conscious system pays attention to the words being written and looks… Read more »