Health & Medicine

To understand why reading is a biological intervention, we have to look at the 'CPU' of your brain. In a world designed to distract you, here is how you build a mind that can’t be broken.

Many Americans who have spent years avoiding the bread aisle find themselves in a state of disbelief the moment they step off a plane in Italy or France. They sit down at a bistro, tentatively try a piece of local baguette or a bowl of handmade pasta, and wait for the inevitable: the bloating, the sharp abdominal pain, and the crushing "brain fog" that usually follows a gluten-heavy meal back home... But the reaction never comes. This "Europe Effect" is one of the most discus