Cursive Handwriting Could Make Your Idiot Kid Smarter, Study Suggests

There’s a glimmer of hope if you’re looking for last-ditch strategies to save your child from the halls of stupidity. A study published this week in the journal Frontiers of Psychology found that good ol’ cursive handwriting seems better at promoting learning than typing, and if we want to pump smarter kids out of our … Read more

‘Saturday Night Live’ Pokes Fun at Entertainment Tonight In Lip Reading Sketch

Entertainment Tonight can take a joke! On Saturday, the Emmy-winning entertainment news program’s awards season coverage took center stage during a skit on Saturday Night Live.  The hosts, played by Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim, introduced themselves with a riddle as “someone you see every year, once a year, and yet you’ve never seen them before in … Read more

Microsoft’s AI-powered reading tutor lets students choose their own adventures – and it’s free

Screenshot by Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET In the new year, Microsoft has been revamping its AI offerings, such as unveiling Copilot Pro, rebranding its AI image generator, and expanding availability. Now, the company is also expanding its AI tools for education.  On Thursday, Microsoft introduced an improved Reading Coach, leveraging generative AI to provide students with new … Read more

Japan’s imperial family hosts a poetry reading with a focus on peace to welcome the new year

TOKYO — A mother’s love and a yearning for peace flowed from Japanese Empress Masako’s poem, read Friday at an annual celebration of poetry at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The poem sings of how Masako was touched by what her daughter, Princess Aiko, wrote after her school trip to the southern Japanese city of … Read more

Travis Kelce Saying L-Word to Taylor Swift on NYE, Fans Reading His Lips

Play video content Instagram/@krystenrachelle Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are really feeling the love now — this video of them kissing to ring in the New Year also shows him saying “I love you” to her … in the view of Swifties, that is. Fans are certainly convinced he dropped the L-word just as they … Read more

Readwise Reader is the ultimate app for reading the internet

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 18, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, hello, happy holidays, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)  This week, I’ve been combing this list for new board games to try, reading about the NFL’s … Read more

How reading helped Bill Gates change careers after Microsoft

Career changes can be hard, even for Bill Gates — who credits a simple, lifelong habit for his switch from a narrow-minded, decades-long focus on computers and software to international philanthropy. “I had a long period from about age 18 to 40 where I was very monomaniacal … Microsoft was everything,” Gates, 68, recently told … Read more

TikTok Creator Oliver James Is Inspiring Others Who Struggle With Reading

Oliver James didn’t set out to motivate and inspire others on TikTok, but that’s exactly what’s happening. The 35-year-old motivational speaker began to share his journey of learning how to read to help himself but quickly realized it was helping others at the same time. Oliver James Is Teaching Himself How To Read And Sharing … Read more

Suzanne Somers died ‘peacefully’ after reading ‘romantic’ letter by husband

Suzanne Somers died peacefully after reading ‘romantic’ letter by husband Suzanne Somers’ husband Alan Hamel gave her a heartfelt gift a day before she passed away on Sunday morning. An insider told Page Six that Alan gifted the late actress a handwritten poem enfolded in her favorite flowers i.e. pink peonies. People reported that the … Read more