Studies reveal that when handwriting automaticity is achieved, it enhances the cognitive and "free-flowing" intellectual ...

As an avid reader – and an author, too – I’m disheartened by frequent reports of a decline in reading for pleasure among young people. So when a friend recently asked me whether her daughter was ...

A recent bug is preventing Kindle owners from opening new sideloaded books. Amazon has confirmed the issue on its official forums and says a fix is in the works. For now, a useful workaround is to ...

Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...

Did you know you can customize Google to filter out garbage? Take these steps for better search results, including adding Lifehacker as a preferred source for tech news. Apple’s iOS 26 comes out today ...

We’re living longer, healthier lives. We want more than just to “stop working.” We want to thrive, contribute, grow, and find joy in our later years. When you hear the word retirement, what comes to ...

After years of giving millions of dollars to literacy programs, bookstore employees and librarians, James Patterson has now launched an initiative on behalf of emerging authors. The bestselling ...

Bill Coore is a big name in golf-course architecture. But he wasn’t always destined for a life in design. In college at Wake Forest, he studied the classics. Not Golden Age layouts. Actual classics.

My day job is a design educator, so for me, this time of year is filled with writing syllabi, planning new classes, and thinking about what the next generation of designers might need to know as they ...