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A quickie about brain science and reading

I’m working on a longer post with more citations, but for those of you who heard my interview last night on MTPR, the book I was trying to remember was Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains.” I found it a well-written and alarming read. Here’s an exceprt and the [...]

exuviate, v. - To cast off or shed

It’s my very first link dump! I’ve been away (making sure my brother got good and married), and have been thinking about all these groovy word-related sites to feed to you.
A few of these may be slightly old news, but then again, I don’t know where you get your news from, so I’ll take [...]