Being able to speed read and still comprehend what you just read is a worthwhile skill to develop before going to college. This article provides you with 10 ways that you can improve speed reading comprehension. One surprising tip was to not highlight the text as the main goal is to be able to read fluidly and efficiently.

This is an interesting article that explains the weird linguistic phenomena in which people are able to read a sentence where the letters in each word are jumbled up. Although scientists haven't came up with an exact conclusion for this amazing human capability, this article provides a few theories.

In this article, scientists analyze 5,000 orangutan "kiss squeaks." They think that our ancestors used orangutan kiss squeaks as a precursor of consonants and vowels. The kiss squeaks require the action of the lips, tongue, and jaw similar to the movements needed to say consonants. Scientists believe orangutan kiss squeaks to be the crucial "building blocks" in the evolution of language.

Did you cringe or feel super uncomfortable reading any of the words in the title? Well, if you did, you're not alone. It's actually a real and common feeling called word aversion. In fact, researchers say that 20% of the population equate hearing the word "moist" to hearing fingernails on a chalkboard. In this article, Paul Thibodeau of Oberlin College tests his hypotheses toward word aversions with a language experiment. One of his explanations for the origin of word aversion is the word's phonological properties. Another, is that the word has to do with concepts people tend to associate with that word. Read this article to learn about Dr. Thibodeau's results from conducting five experiments to provide data for these two competing explanations.