Forty years ago, Donald Homa, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University specializing in memory and the visual perception of linguistic stimuli, was contacted by officials at the American ...

The award for the latest creative marketing campaign goes to Staples for their e-reader speed-reading test. The test shows a few paragraphs of texts from classic novels (War of the Worlds and Alice in ...

Think browsing the Internet all day has given you a leg up on speed reading? A new test from Staples’ Ereader Research Center will tell you exactly how many words you read a minute, and tell you how ...

In the movie "Lucy," Scarlett Johansson plays a woman who ingests a drug that gives her super-intelligence, allowing her to read huge volumes of material in just minutes. In real life, the Boston tech ...

New app not only speed reading tool for Web and mobile devices. Mar. 7, 2014 — -- A new speed reading program promises to help you read a novel in less than 90 minutes without having to move your ...

Speed reading is a skill that almost seems like a superpower. The ability to quickly read and comprehend books, articles and other written materials would be life-changing for a lot of us. But is ...

It’s a habit especially prevalent among seasoned investors and serial entrepreneurs: folks who speak in freakishly polished prose, who punctuate their arguments with perfect metaphors, and who can ...