Reports of people being able to blitz through a novel or a stack of reports in minutes may seem like a sort of wizardry, but ...

Put down Wordle. New brain-exercise-for-the-day just dropped. “Can you read 900 words per minute?” a viral post that has been doing the rounds on X, challenges. “Try it.” If you made it to 600 words ...

When I was a teenager, I was—shockingly, I know—deeply nerdy. At a science-fiction convention, I bought a button that read, “186,282 miles/second: Not just a good idea, it’s the law.” It was poking ...

If you’ve been stuck in a book slump — or you’ve always struggled to sit still long enough to finish a chapter — you’re not alone. Between endless notifications, short-form content like TikTok and ...

Every time I read about another advance in AI technology, I feel like another figment of science fiction moves closer to reality. Lately, I’ve been noticing eerie parallels to Neal Stephenson’s 1995 ...