People have a lot of opinions about The Rise of Skywalker, good and bad, but one thing is absolutely certain: This thing is dense. There’s so much planet-hopping and myth-building, the film is ...

Visual dictionary Experienced readers recognise whole words in much the same way we recognise a face, according to scientists who have observed the changes in brain scans that occur as a new word is ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The brain holds a "visual dictionary" of words we have read, allowing quick recognition without ...

A new study finds that skilled readers do not rely on sounds when reading but rather retrieve words purely from a “visual dictionary.” The research, conducted by neuroscientists at Georgetown ...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has been in theaters for a few weeks now but we've yet to get the answers to the Skywalker Saga finale's lingering questions we so desperately need. Thankfully, the ...

The Visual Dictionary web site catalogs photographs of words (from signs to graffiti to tattoos) and makes them searchable by the word they contain. While it's still fairly young, the Visual ...

Sometimes a picture’s worth a thousand words. Maybe that’s why Merriam Webster has archived thousands of photos into a visual online dictionary. It contains more than 6,000 full-color images and ...

We all know the problems Wikipedia had in the past over misinformation and their efforts to correct errors in their community-generated information. Now from Merriam-Webster, a fairly well-respected ...