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Lit & Nature Light Up Same Parts of Brain

By Robin Bates | Published: April 8, 2021

The brain doesn’t distinguish between reading about something and actually experiencing it. This has interesting implications for lit.

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Stories Have Always Opened Up the Future

By Robin Bates | Published: April 12, 2016

An anthropologist argues that human beings took over the world because they had the ability to compose fictions. Literature continues to point the way forward for us as a species.

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We Can’t Help But Quote the Bard

By Robin Bates | Published: February 8, 2013

Shakespeare is so pervasive in the language that we are often oblivious when we are quoting him.

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