Reading

In Greg Bear’s novel “Blood Music,” a scientist infected with a synthetic virus realizes that the organisms in his body have become self-aware — and they’re talking in his head. 

Research has shown that reading books aloud to children helps them become better readers and maybe even better learners. A close look at the text of children’s books offers a possible explanation why.

If you’ve given up on reading paper books for the ease of your e-reader’s screen, you may want to step back a bit. Neuroscience confirms that our brains use different areas to read on paper and screens, and you need to exercise both.

In 2011, Ann Morgan, a journalist and author in the UK, set herself the goal to read a book from every country in the world in one year. And she blogged about it.