I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...
How I Learned to Read Way, Way More
I had to rethink my relationship to attention
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The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
Opinion | My Students Can’t Read
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
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Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology An analysis of +65 million papers, patents & software products finds that small teams tend to disrupt science & technology with new ideas, whereas larger teams have tended to develop existing ones www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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It’s true. I wrote about dashboard confessional defector.com/revisiting-d...
Revisiting Dashboard Confessional, 25 Years Later | Defector
Sometimes the best music is the most embarrassing music. That’s part of the magic of art: the mystical properties that can make a work simultaneously vulnerable and uncomfortable and alluring and groo...
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My weekly update on NIH funding. This is for all projects. The breakdown for competing and non-competing awards will follow. 1/4
Dave into the commercial break, Dead out of the commercial break. Nice.
Farewell to the great Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead who kept the long, strange trip rolling long after the death of Jerry Garcia. variety.com/2026/music/n...
Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Guitarist, Dies at 78
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Bob Weir, a cornerstone of the Grateful Dead and the band’s many latter-day offshoots, has died
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Haven’t posted here in a while but really enjoying this album from RSD last weekend. #NowSpinning Grateful Dead - Beacon Theatre New York 1976
