Bowie, Jazz, and the Unplayable Piano
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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The Ugly Fonts
A study by the psychologists conner diamond, yauman, daniel oppenheimer and eric o vaughan. They teamed up with high school teachers to reform out the teaching hand outs they used. Half their classes got the original materials in standard fonts such as time's new roman. The other half got the same documents reformated into one of three challenging fonts: hatden sweiler, monotype corseive or comic sands italicized. Students who had been taught using them ended up scoring higher on their exams.
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