Anagnosology (READING) with Adrian Johns

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Clay tablets! Printing presses! Old timey audio books! Speed reading strategies! Attention spans! Dyslexia history! Literacy campaigns! Dr. Adrian Johns is an historian, professor, and author of the book “The Science of Reading” and we have a nice mellow chat about when humans started to “read,” what that means, being Hooked on Phonics, Dick, Jane, character languages, audiobooks, e-readers, school segregation, literacy rates, and how long we can focus at a time. He literally wrote the book on it. Visit Dr. Adrian Johns’ faculty bio at University of Chicago Shop Dr. Johns’ books including The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America (2023) and The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (1998) A donation went to 826LA.org and Glioblastoma Research Organization More episode sources and links Smologies (short, classroom-safe) episodes Other episodes you may enjoy: Anthropodermic Biocodicology (HUMAN LEATHER BOOKS), Egyptology (ANCIENT EGYPT), Curiology (EMOJI), Attention Deficit Neuropsychology (ADHD), Witchology (WITCHES & WITCHCRAFT), Quantum Ontology (WHAT IS REAL?), Abstract Mathemetology (UH, IS MATH REAL?), Pedagogology (SCIENCE COMMUNICATION) with Bill Nye Sponsors of Ologies Transcripts and bleeped episodes Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, stickers, totes! Follow @Ologies on Twitter and Instagram Follow @AlieWard on Twitter and Instagram Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary Website by Kelly R. Dwyer Theme song by Nick Thorburn

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's that book on your bedside table.
0:02.1	Just wondering how you been, Ali Ward.
0:05.6	And here we are.
0:06.4	We're listening to words about reading words.
0:09.6	Let's get into the science of reading.
0:12.2	It exists. And our expert wrote a book titled
0:15.0	The Science of Reading. So here we go. Now this guest is a professor of
0:18.8	history at the University of Chicago and a department chair of conceptual and historical studies of science.
0:25.0	And their book is The Science of Reading,
0:27.2	Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America.
0:30.4	But we'll chat about times and places
0:32.1	in other parts of the globe as well and also even how reading things like smut can improve your life
0:37.2	But before we get into it a quick thank you to folks who submitted questions for this via patreon and patreon
0:41.5	com slash homologies where you can join for one dollar a month and also if you need a shirt if you're not wearing one right now or you need a bathing suit or hat.
0:50.2	ologies merch.com is linked right in the show notes.
0:53.7	Also, thank you to everyone who leaves reviews of this show
0:56.5	on their podcast apps, which helps so much
0:59.4	and it costs you nothing, and I read them all,
1:02.1	such as this freshly penned one from Liz
1:05.2	6046 who writes I work at a factory for 8 to 12 hours and you make it so much better I
1:10.5	love learning new and random things well Hey, thank you for taking your
1:14.7	internet dad to work. Liz 6486. Also there was one review left by
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