What the Vai Script Reveals About the Evolution of Writing
In the 19th century, a man living in present-day Liberia dreamed of the first script for his native Vai language. ...
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What were hieroglyphs, the Egyptian words of the gods, and what did they mean?
One of the world's most famous scripts is also one of its most mysterious.
Our ability to read and write is housed in a ‘recycled’ part of the brain
The brains of non-speaking mammals seem to recognize letters using an area of the visual cortex.
Can AI replace newsroom journalists?
AIs that write news are great with numbers, but fail terribly with people. There might hope for us jurnalists after ...
Researchers write grant proposals differently depending on their gender, and it can lead to bias
The findings also have interesting implications for automated text-analysis software, which will increasingly take on tasks like this in the ...
Braille Neue can be read just as easily with your eyes as with your fingertips
Writing that everyone can read.
Will AI start to take over writing? How will we manage it?
An AI writer -- can this really be?
Graphology is a pseudoscience
Sometimes there's a fine line between what's scientific and what's just fantasy.
Learning to read changes your brain from stem to cortex, study finds
The more you do it, the better it gets.
UV-printed text allows sheets to be reset and re-used 80 different times
This message will self-erase in five to more days.
Writing about your trauma in third person helps recovery
Writing about your traumas in third person eases recovery. Photo credit: culturestrike.net Writing your memoirs or ...
Oldest readable writing found in Europe
[caption id="attachment_5683" align="alignnone" width="501" caption="A 3500 years old Mycenaean tablet found last summer in Greece is the oldest form of ...
Keeping a diary – the key to happiness?
Keeping a diary is not just something girls do when they break up with their boyfriends or don't get along ...