Have you ever heard the expression “use it or lose it”? It is true! If you do not use your body, you will surely lose it, your muscles will become flabby and weak, your heart and lungs won’t function efficiently, your joints will become stiff and easily injured. Inactivity is as much a health risk […]

Surprising as it may sound, reading is the most extensive as well as intensive thinking process known to humans, far more than brainstorming sessions on a topic or the toughest intellectual problem-solving.Reading requires the automatic integration of several ‘deep-thinking’ processes. Here is a sample of such processes to the extent we could list (neuroscientists can […]

Reading is an acquired skill – we have to learn to read. The earliest record of written language (an organised system of symbols) is somewhere around 4000 BC. And as a skill for the masses, it is only a few centuries old. The invention of the printing press in the middle of the last millennium […]