What Is Skanning

The fovea is a small high visual acuity area in the retina. Our eyes are seriously limited in their precision outside said area.

We can take in only a word or so at each glance, and a little bit about the words on either side. 

Multiple experiments confirm that speed reading

1. Passion is one of those words that people use often without really understanding the original meaning of the word.
2. When most people refer to "passion", they use it to mean strong emotions reflecting an intense desire or boundless enthusiasm.
3. It was only after reading...

A study found that one in every sixty words people speak is either um or uh. That means you are adding two or three of these 'fillers' per minute.

One idea on why we use fillers is that we can't immediately find the right word to say. But we could jus...