Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Friday, August 5, 2016

Reading Books Will Help You Live Longer

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Bryan Thomas for The New York Times New York Times: Read Books, Live Longer? Reading books is tied to a longer life, according to a ...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

The Growing Global Economic Cost Of Illiteracy

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The Guardian: Illiteracy will cost global economy $1.2tn in 2015 Report by the World Literacy Foundation says almost 800m people worldw...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Watch And Learn How Music Videos Are Triggering A Literacy Boom

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A group of people watched television at a slum in Gulbai Tekra, an area in the city of Ahmedabad in India. (Jaydeep Bhatt) From Boston.com: ...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Reading Arabic 'Hard For Brain'

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From The BBC: Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read. The University of Haifa team...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Your Brain On Books

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Photo: Neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene From Scientific American: Neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene explains his quest to understand how the...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

'Brain-Reading' Methods Developed

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Scientists have developed a highly accurate way to peer into the brain to uncover a person's mental state and what sort of information i...

Why We Get Lost in Books

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From Live Science: Any avid reader knows the power of a book to transport you into another world, be it the wizard realm of "Harry Pott...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Reading This Will Change Your Brain

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Jeff Sherman / Taxi-Getty Images (Photo from Newsweek) From Newsweek: A leading neuroscientist says processing digital information can r...
Friday, October 3, 2008

The Beginning of E-Paper?

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Liquavista device ( Photo from the Guardian ) Scientists Aim To Deliver E-Paper In Full Computerised Colour -- The Guardian Scientists in Ca...