17 May 2015 – Conducting both surveys and EEG scans, Microsoft has published a study suggesting that the average attention span has fallen precipitously since the start of the century. While people could focus on a task for 12 seconds...
11 November 2022 – In an increasingly globalized world, the U.S. is at an ever-increasing disadvantage due to the lack of foreign language skills among Americans. Other than heritage-language speakers, it is estimated that only between one in eight and one...
18 November 2014 – The world’s most powerful computers can’t perform accurate real-time translation. Yet interpreters do it with ease. Geoff Watts meets the neuroscientists who are starting to explain this remarkable ability. For the fascinating story click here.
6 August 2014 – At a time when a lot of the talk about diminished social mobility in America is just that — talk, lip service, a wringing of hands rather than a springing into action — this...
1 August 2014 – In the midst of the Hachette-Amazon wars as well as the launch of Kindle Unlimited, there has been much hand-wringing about what it means to be a publisher, a writer, and a reader. One...
«Τα πάντα εδώ μιλούν σήμερα όπως έκαναν και αιώνες πριν, για τον φωτισμό. Εδώ το φως διαπερνά κατευθείαν την ψυχή σου, ανοίγει την πόρτα και τα παράθυρα της καρδιάς, σε αφήνει γυμνό, εκτεθειμένο, απομονωμένο σε μια μεταφορική...
“Everything here speaks now as it did centuries ago, of illumination. Here the light penetrates directly to the soul, opens the door and windows of the heart, makes one naked, exposed, isolated in a metaphysical bliss which makes...
26 March 2014 – There has been a wonderful series of articles in New Scientist over the last year on the brain and the neuroscience of reading. A few have focused on an issue every parent has grappled...
26 Μαρτίου 2014 – Υπήρξε μια θαυμάσια σειρά άρθρων στο NewScientist κατά τη διάρκεια του προηγούμενου χρόνου, σχετικά με το μυαλό και τη νευροεπιστήμη του διαβάσματος. Μερικά από αυτά επικεντρώθηκαν σε ένα θέμα με το οποίο κάθε...
4 February 2014 – American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie’s public library legacy was built on a boyhood dream: to acquire knowledge. Carnegie believed in “the meritocratic nature of America,” that anyone “with the right inclination and desire could educate himself” and...