September 2025

Illustration by Mary Cundiff

Pages vs. Playback:
What Science Reveals About Reading and Audiobooks

“… are audiobooks slower than reading, and do they “count” towards your reading goals? Just as important, how does the brain process audiobooks, and what impact do they have on comprehension and experience? As someone active on BookTok and Bookstagram, I have my own thoughts but what does the research say?”

Christen Snyder

Our First Observation is Observation Itself

“… are audiobooks slower than reading, and do they “count” towards your reading goals? Just as important, how does the brain process audiobooks, and what impact do they have on comprehension and experience? As someone active on BookTok and Bookstagram, I have my own thoughts but what does the research say?”

Anonymous

Don’t Kill the Messenger:
How mRNA went from a Scientific Breakthrough to Public Debate

“mRNA is simply a linear strand of nucleotides that serves as a recipe for protein synthesis. Since the discovery of mRNA’s function, it has been at the center of modern biology and resulted in entire fields of research that revolve around it.”

Mary Cundiff

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