Ahh, the age-old conundrum. According to the Guardian, a survey of 1,000 people in the UK claim that their reading time has nearly doubled, that is from 3.5 hours a… Read more »

If you’ve been looking at the New York Times Best Sellers list lately, perhaps you have seen this book or this book. If you’re looking at it a couple of weeks… Read more »

If you remember, we talked a few posts back about the healing powers of poetry, but here’s another instance where poetry and science unexpectedly connects. In a recent Bioscience paper… Read more »

So, what does that mean for us? Well, time to buy some more books.… Read more »

It’s no secret that literature is powerful. For many of us, there are times in our lives–a loved one’s passing, our first heartbreak–that we frankly could not have made it through… Read more »

Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s proposal to slash state spending by eliminating a self-funding magazine published by the state’s Department of Natural Resources is provoking calls of bullshit from former agency… Read more »

Three years ago, David Comer Kidd and Emanuele Castano, researchers at The New School for Social Research, published the results of a series of psychological studies that claimed to show a… Read more »

Traditionally, if one wanted a book, one would walk or drive or take the train to the nearest bookstore, where they would make their selection, hand over a couple bills,… Read more »

It’s nice to remember that even nuclear physicists sometimes get a little too high and start yammering on about Finnegan’s Wake. Unfortunately for all, nuclear physicists do all of their… Read more »

When the exploration of the natural sciences become a content-ready package, an interesting and exotic morsel you might hear on Radiolab or see paired with an unsourced photo on Facebook,… Read more »