A Strange Pattern in Certain Words Seems to Boost Your Reading Ability. Via @sciencealert #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑🔬 #neurology #Books 📖 #Education 📚
A Strange Pattern in Certain W...
Think about a word that looks like its meaning.The Conversation (ScienceAlert)
A new book explains why drugs cost so much in the United States — and why Trump’s claims about addressing the crisis are bogus.
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"The library is a treasure trove of healing for the soul.” (inscription in the library in Thebes) 📚
Art: 'Life' by Paweł Kuczyński
Good M🌞rning, Grace!
There's a book 📖 called "The best museum in the world" which I'm really enjoying! It invites you to visit a printed universal museum, and guides you on visited tours like in a physical one ;) pretty original, right?✨️ ☺️
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#books #reading #culture #español
El libro infantil EL MEJOR MUSEO DEL MUNDO en Casa del Libro: ¡descubre las mejores ofertas y envíos gratis!casadellibro
The Politics of Time by Guy Standing was a good book to read just after I'd stopped working (for pay). He talks about the differences between work and labour as well as leisure and recreation, according to the Greeks. He writes a history of how people have spent their time, the problems of work today and ideas for the future. It is packed full of arguments and ideas, criticising the belief everyone should labour for money.
📚 Where There Is No Doctor is one of the world’s most influential community health books .🌍🩺
Written to help people in rural and underserved areas, the book explains basic healthcare, first aid, disease prevention, sanitation, nutrition, and common medical conditions in simple language that ordinary people can understand .🤯
For decades, it has helped communities around the world learn practical health knowledge even in places with limited access to doctors or hospitals .🏥✨
Read more 👇
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When the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was established after World War Two, it was 'created to decide what kind of society we wanted to build.'
As UNESCO states, planning for such a body began in early 1942, with global leaders imagining an organization that would use education, culture, science and information to build lasting peace.
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#soap #education #media #nhs #culture #art #books #news #learning #unesco
UNESCO: Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity - 2024URL: https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/02112Description: Nabulsi soap is a hand-...UNESCO (YouTube)
If you like Dr Dean Burnett's work and output, you can support him and it and simultaneously enrich yourself, by buying one of his many excellent books, which offer fun and accessible insights into the fascinating complexities of our grey matter and what it does
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Trading since 1879, Blackwell of Oxford is the largest academic and specialist bookseller in the UK. Fast dispatch, carefully packaged, worldwide delivery.blackwells.co.uk
The empty brain
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
by Robert Epstein (from the archive)
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Books in Cognition & Psychology at PG:
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Project Gutenberg offers 78,441 free eBooks for iPhone, iPad, Kobo, Android and Kindle.Project Gutenberg
One of my biggest regrets from the past few years was losing the habit of reading books. All the usual excuses: child to look after, too tired, not enough time…
I didn’t read a ton, but I had an average of 30 books a year. Last year I must have read 6. This year in early April I was at 0… and the realization shook me to my core.
Something had to be done.
I found out about KOreader and SimpleUI - having on an e-reader homepage a bar with reading stats would be an incredible motivator… I thought.
Jailbroke my #Kindle, installed #KOreader and #SimpleUI. And 18 days later I have… an 18 day reading streak and I’m averaging 43 minutes of reading time per day. I’m just so happy! 😊
(Unrelated but #Technofeudalism is REALLY GOOD - off to go resume reading it for another 20 minutes or so).
A binman in Turkey’s capital found a bag of thrown-away books on his rounds and couldn’t bring himself to take it to the dump. He kept it. Other workers started doing the same. The pile has now grown into a public library of over 9,000 books, run by sanitation workers, in an old brick factory 📚
John Hollander’s poem Kitty and Bug is self-explanatory in its simplicity. The cat’s unpunctuated, almost stream-of-consciousness thoughts fit into a physical ‘cat’ shape, while the bug – in sharp contrast – is but a 3-letter word near the edge of the page.
Happy #Caturday !
#poetry #poem #cat #cats #kitty #catsOfMastodon #books #reading #literature #bookstodon @bookstodon
👩💻 My So Called Sudo Life: Jailbroken Kindle edition 📖
If you followed my #Jailbreaking adventures this past week, I'd like to add a final chapter on the positive effect it had on my reading habits.
Long story short: I used to be an avid reader and I had sadly lost the habit of reading books in the last couple of years (blaming tiredness at the end of the day). I had been looking for a system to encourage me to get back on track. When I found out about #KOreader and #SimpleUI I was totally smitten: an elegant interface that kept track of my reading stats? Sign me up!
In the photo I've attached you can see my reading stats for the past week - aka since I started using KOreader and SimpleUI. If you don't want to squint / find it harder to read: my daily reading average is about 40 minutes. Not bad! I'm just absolutely delighted by this.
#KindleJailbreak #reading #books #habits #MySoCalledSudoLife
