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The Reading Brain in a Digital World (This Is Your Brain)
This Is Your Brain × Maryanne Wolf
Neurosurgeon Dr. Phil Stieg interviews Wolf on how a brain with no reading hardware builds a circuit, and what digital media does to it.
The human brain did not evolve to read — but reading makes us more fully human as it opens up new worlds of understanding and empathy.
— This Is Your Brain, episode notes
Listen at thisisyourbrain.com (27 min).
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