Wax tablets were among the oldest writing media, and scientists have recently uncovered the secrets of their technology. In Ancient Rome, if you needed to write a letter, you wouldn't reach for ...

Classroom technology has been revolutionizing learning ever since people in Mesopotamia used the first abacus all the way back in 2700 BCE—and it has been moving especially fast since the latter half ...

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Universities have changed significantly since the Middle Ages. James Axtell describes just how far higher education has come in his new book,... When we think of colleges, we imagine sprawling ...

In 1925, Sigmund Freud wrote what is now a fairly well-known essay, “A Note on the ‘Mystic Writing-Pad.’” The Mystic Writing-Pad was a relatively simple device that enabled the instant erasure of any ...

The tradition of buying cheap, joke souvenirs for your loved ones while traveling dates back at least two millennia. During an archaeological excavation at a Roman-era site in London, researchers ...

There’s something about that pad of lined newsprint with dashes down the center used by children to learn their letters that sends adults into a nostalgic revelry. Putting in the hours getting capital ...

The tradition of buying cheap, joke souvenirs for your loved ones while traveling dates back at least two millennia. During an archaeological excavation at a Roman-era site in London, researchers ...

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The tradition of buying cheap, joke souvenirs for your loved ones while traveling dates back at least two millennia. During an archaeological excavation at a Roman-era site in London, researchers ...