Category: Just for Fun

Storytelling and listening are as old as mankind. The Professor explains that reading, from an evolutionary perspective, came later and uses processes in the brain that were already there from learning by listening....

In Old English – the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in the early Middle Ages – “book hoards” (from Old English bōchord) were what we know as libraries or collections of...

Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. 

Here’s something you may not know about trees.

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