When was the last time you got lost in a book? These days, the act of 'deep reading,' or reading with intention, can be difficult to practice. Maryanne Wolf, an expert in the science of reading, ...

Flat lay from many books. Knowledge. Education. Student. Schoolboy. I research and write about happiness, so every year before Jan. 1, I ask people, “What resolutions will you make this year?” With ...

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 ...

1. Before reading the full paper, we would of course want to read the abstract. However, I would never base my clinical decisions based on the abstract alone. I read the abstract only on two occasions ...