With more information than ever at our fingertips, there’s a sense of rush to take it all in and “skim.” Here's what the experts say about our reading habits—and whether you should change them. Though ...

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You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

In the early days of television, some proponents confidently claimed that it would shortly replace textbooks for learning (Vandermeer, 1948), while others apparently worried that television would ...