Emma Smith is the author of This Is Shakespeare, published by Penguin Random House. In recent years the orthodoxy that Shakespeare can only be truly appreciated on stage has become widespread. But, as ...

How does your brain so quickly make sense of jumbled words that at first glance look like nonsense? Researchers aren’t entirely sure, but they have some suspicions. Yuo cna porbalby raed tihs esaliy ...

Babies and young children are sponges that soak in practically everything in their environments. It’s true! Even during story time, their minds are at work, taking in all the language they hear and ...