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Whoa No Way, Books Are Good For Kids!

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Whoa, I’m, like, so shocked: new study ‘reveals’ that growing up with a large* home library results in significantly improved literacy, numeracy, and digital communication skills! 😱😱 No way!! 📚📚📚 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/…/growing-surrounded-books…/… * “Average” = 80 books in the house, large = ‘more than that’, with numbers over 350 not having any further discernible impact. (Curious: […]

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Five Reasons Why Fiction Is Critically Important In Human Culture (pt 2)

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See yesterday’s post for Reasons 1 through 3. REASON FOUR: SOCIAL/POWER STRUCTURES In all of this, there may be some interesting things going on with our background psychology. Some monkey scientists (as in scientists who study monkeys, not, you know, unusually inquiring and intellectual monkeys) have suggested that when monkeys groom each other, it’s not

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Five Reasons Why Fiction Is Critically Important In Human Culture (pt 1)

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One of my friends got tangled in an argument on Twitter last week about why fiction even matters in the first place. Conveniently, I actually addressed that in one of my recent non-fiction books, so I thought I’d repost here tagged accordingly. This is in two parts – part two will post tomorrow.    Storytelling

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