Today in News History

On July 13, several notable moments in the history of News stand out. In 1579, Arthur Dee, English physician and chemist (died 1651) was born. In 1831, Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (died 1889) was born. In 1858, Stewart Culin, American ethnographer and author (died 1929) was born. In 1892, Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (died 1941) was born. In 1903, Kenneth Clark, English historian and author (died 1983) was born. In 1929, Svein Ellingsen, Norwegian visual artist and hymnist (died 2020) was born. In 1932, Hubert Reeves, Canadian-French astrophysicist and author (died 2023) was born. In 1934, Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate was born. In 1935, Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian journalist, author, and playwright was born. In 2014, Thomas Berger, American author and playwright (born 1924) passed away. Together, these milestones provide historical context for today's news news and ongoing narratives.

I cannot spell Dyslexia

Irish Tech News

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June 24, 2026

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A thought that often comes to me is doing things as a child with my mother. This generally involved helping her in the kitchen. My mother was a wonderful cook. One recurring memory I have is of the smell in the house when she baked Christmas cake for her sisters and for us. When it came time to decorate the cake each year, out came the plastic []

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Free Press

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· Jul 8, 2026

Cognitive Dissonance Skippy

Cognitive Dissonance Skippy

mindbodygreen

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· Jun 26, 2026

The Surprising Brain Health Clue Hiding In Your Handwriting

The case for picking up a pen

Inc.com

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· Jul 12, 2026

1 Small Behavior Change Improves Your Brain Chemistry, According to 201 Studies

It also makes you happier.

Elana's Pantry

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· Feb 8, 2025

My Mental Health

My name is Elana Frances Amsterdam. I am fifty-seven years old. I have ADHD, OCD, Complex PTSD, and RSD (rejection sensitive dysphoria). I grew up with a father, mother, and sister in Davis, California. As a child of nine, I sat alone in our kitchen, perched on a stool, picturing dark outer space filled with [] The post My Mental Health appeared first on Elana's Pantry.

Sweden Herald

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· Jul 3, 2026

Six counterintuitive summer reading and viewing tips to beat boredom

Six counterintuitive summer reading and viewing tips to beat boredom

Gizmodo

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· Jun 30, 2026

Meta’s AI Is Getting Better at Reading Your Thoughts—Without Cracking Open Your Skull

The company’s Brain2Qwerty v2 system can translate brainscans into coherent sentences, no invasive surgery required.

Daily Mail

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· Jul 4, 2026

DR ELLIE: Tired, anxious and unable to focus? These are all signs of this one common condition - and NO it's not ADHD. Don't be tricked by the hype into missing the real culprit

DR ELLIE: Tired, anxious and unable to focus? These are all signs of this one common condition - and NO it's not ADHD. Don't be tricked by the hype into missing the real culprit

MIT Technology Review

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· Jun 23, 2026

A man of many words

Brian Sietsema has a favorite word. It’s somewhat surprising that he can choose just one. He’s the person spellers rely on to confirm pronunciations and answer questions about the roots of the words they’re given at the Scripps National Spelling Bee—arguably the world’s most prestigious competition of its kind. The story of how the word

FOX News Health

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· Jul 12, 2026

Learning another language may keep your brain younger, study suggests

Bilingual participants had brains appearing six years younger, while those speaking four languages showed brains that were roughly 13 years younger.

The Narwhal

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· Jul 2, 2026

Ask a climate therapist: Why should I plan for my future when I feel we don’t have one?

Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport offers advice to a young reader staring down a world of uncertainty

Irish Mirror

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· Jul 5, 2026

Community rallies around All-Ireland winner battling life-threatening disease as fundraiser hits €105k

Eimear McAndrew was diagnosed with early-onset Spinocerebellar Ataxia 7 (SCA7) at 27 years old, which is an aggressive degenerative neurological disease affecting 1 in 100,000 people globally with no known cure

Hi China

· Jul 6, 2026

Little student closes eyes to memorize vocabulary before exam

Before a final exam in Zhaotong, Yunnan, a young student closed their eyes to quietly memorize vocabulary. The adorable look of total concentration melted hearts. #Trending

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MGyWTVLzq79BbxAh4S83gQ.jpg

· Jul 8, 2026

‘The decline in reading cuts across age groups, gender and education levels’

‘The decline in reading cuts across age groups, gender and education levels’

MakeUseOf

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· Jun 27, 2026

I built a tiny Claude skill that turns any document into a mind map, and now I can visualize anything

Five prompts later, nothing I read stays trapped in a wall of text.

Ethereum on Medium

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· Jul 13, 2026

Obsession towards BTC, ETH, DOGE, & SHIB Daily Crypto Price Prediction

I walked out of Obsession feeling twitchy. The guy in it doesn’t blink. He tracks her coffee order, the way she taps her card, the exactContinue reading on Medium »

The Daily Wire

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· Jun 23, 2026

The Reason Behind The Rise Of Activist Teachers — And Our Classrooms

This piece is part of MI x DW, a collaboration that brings Daily Wire readers exclusive commentary and research from the Manhattan Institute’s world-class team of scholars. *** The United States has entered a “learning recession,” according to a new Education Scorecard report. Nationally, eighth-grade reading scores now stand at their lowest point since 1990, and fourth-grade ...

The i Paper

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· Jul 13, 2026

How to learn a language in your 50s – and slow down brain ageing

Forget crosswords – a new study has found that if you want to keep your grey matter young, learn French

Tucker Carlson

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· Jul 2, 2026

How to Know When You’re Being Brainwashed

Watch more here: https://www.youtube.com/@TuckerCarlson/featured

ASCD SmartBrief

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· Jun 30, 2026

Public-private partnership boosts literacy in Florida

Indian River County, Fla., has shown significant improvement in third-grade reading proficiency, with 69 of students profici -More-

The New Zealand Herald

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· Jul 11, 2026

Liam Dann: Is AI my drunk friend? I asked and got a surprising response

Liam Dann: Is AI my drunk friend? I asked and got a surprising response

Borneo Bulletin

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· Jul 2, 2026

US actor Danny Glover says he has Alzheimer’s

US actor Danny Glover says he has Alzheimer’s

India TV News

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· Jun 25, 2026

'Please do not…': Alka Yagnik breaks silence on wheelchair video after Padma Bhushan ceremony

Alka Yagnik has reassured fans that she is well and recovering after her video in a wheelchair after the Padma Bhushan ceremony left her fans concerned. The veteran singer, in 2024, announced in a public post that she is battling a rare sensory neural nerve hearing loss.

DNyuz

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· Jul 4, 2026

Researchers Discovered Your Brain Really Can Sync Up With Someone Else’s. Here’s How It Works.

If you’ve ever been riding a wave of creativity that feels like your brain and someone else’s have been Bluetooth-synced and are now finishing each other’s sentences, both instinctively knowing where the song/screenplay/woodworking project or whatever you’re building should go, then you’ve experienced what scientists call brain synchrony. As described by a team of researchers []

New Scientist

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· Jun 22, 2026

Woman with Alzheimer's starts conversing again after taking psilocybin

A woman with severe Alzheimer's disease who hadn't spoken more than monosyllables in years began initiating conversation after a single dose of psilocybin

Medical Daily

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· Jul 7, 2026

Scientists Found Why Some Brains Resist Alzheimer's Disease: Here Is the Cellular Survival Mechanism They Discovered

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience researchers found immature neuron behavior — not just quantity — determines Alzheimer's cognitive resilience. Here's what it means for the 30 who never develop dementia.

Seeking Alpha

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· Jul 11, 2026

Alphabet: Panic Surrounding Recent Brain Drain Is Pure Noise

Alphabet: Panic Surrounding Recent Brain Drain Is Pure Noise

Decrypt

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· Jun 29, 2026

Meta Unveils New Tech That Uses AI to Translate Brain Activity Into Text—Without Surgery

Meta says its latest Brain2Qwerty system translates brain activity into sentences using non-invasive brain recordings, improving the accuracy of AI-powered neural decoding.

Pluralist

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· Jun 26, 2026

How Accurate Are ADHD Tests for Adults?

Getting diagnosed with ADHD as an adult can feel like finally finding the missing piece

The 74

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· Jun 22, 2026

Iowa Declared War on Chronic Absenteeism. Now It’s Gaining Some Ground

Davenport, Iowa, superintendent TJ Schneckloth has an easy way of describing the impact of student absenteeism. “Take your favorite book,” he said. “Let me rip one page out and it’s no longer your favorite book.” The loss of knowledge and continuity mirrors what students face when they miss even a single day of school, he []

Fark

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· Jul 5, 2026

College students are no longer smarter than a fourth grader [Sad]

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Associated Press

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· Jul 7, 2026

Sienna Spiro on how her ADHD helps her creatively

Sienna Spiro shares how having ADHD enhanced her creative process on her new album "Visitor." #SiennaSpiro #Visitor

Digital Trends

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· Jul 8, 2026

New study finds gaming doesn’t rot your brain, but compulsive habits can

A study of 3,854 adolescents tied compulsive gaming symptoms to lower cognitive performance, while longer playtime showed small positive associations with several measured abilities.

The Eastern Herald

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· Jun 21, 2026

Wordle #1829 Answer for June 22, 2026 Revealed: “OVATE” Stumps Players With Subtle Linguistic Trap

A deceptively simple five-letter puzzle on June 22, 2026, led many Wordle players into a maze of familiar letter patterns before arriving at an uncommon solution: OVATE. For many players, today’s challenge was not about obscure spelling or repeated letters. Instead, the difficulty stemmed from the word’s relative rarity in everyday conversation. While most English speakers recognize common endings such as “-ATE,” far fewer regularly encounter the word “ovate,” a term most often used in botanical, scientific, and descriptive contexts. The June 22 puzzle continues a noticeable trend in recent Wordle selections. Over the past several weeks, players have encountered

UPI

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· Jul 1, 2026

Watch: Danny Glover goes public with Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

Watch: Danny Glover goes public with Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

The Independent

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· Jun 26, 2026

Sephora introduces major change to present a ‘calmer shopping environment’

Most neurodivergent shoppers say Quiet Hours significantly improved their Sephora experience, the company says

KTLA 5

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· Jun 28, 2026

Brain implant helps man with ALS communicate

A California-developed brain implant has enabled a man who lost the ability to speak to communicate independently, browse the internet and work from home for nearly two years, a breakthrough researchers say could transform life for people with severe paralysis. Footage by: Regents of the University of California, Davis. Details: KTLA.com Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/ktla?sub_confirmation=1

The Japan Times

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· Jul 10, 2026

Japanese scientists identify neural mechanism that may explain why we dislike people

University of Tokyo researchers said the study's findings could advance understanding of disorders in which social memory and emotional processing become distorted.

Us Weekly

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· Jul 6, 2026

Celebs Who Have Revealed Their Autism Diagnosis: SZA and More Stars

Throughout the years, more and more Hollywood A-listers have opened up about their autism diagnosis. In October 2024, Tamra Judge revealed that while in therapy she discovered that she is “on the spectrum,” meaning she has a neurological disorder affecting interaction and communication with others, per the National Institute of Mental Health. “We’re trying to []

CityNews Montreal

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· Jul 1, 2026

Actor and activist Danny Glover says he has Alzheimer’s disease

NEW YORK (AP) — Actor and activist Danny Glover, best known for starring as an easygoing police officer in the “Lethal Weapon” franchise, has revealed he has Alzheimer’s disease. The four-time Emmy Award nominee, who turns 80 on July 22, told “Today” and People magazine that he was diagnosed with the progressive, memory-destroying disease three [] The post Actor and activist Danny Glover says he has Alzheimer’s disease appeared first on CityNews Montreal.

Fortune

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· Jun 29, 2026

Ray Dalio was a ‘terrible student’ who got into investing by golf caddying for Wall Street traders: Now he hires talent who have experienced hardship

What I find quite often is the case is that that student who did really, really well—and in remembering all the things that they've learned and so on—hadn't gone through anything like that, [and] may not be the most inventive, may not be the most determined.

BoingBoing

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· Jul 7, 2026

Why English spelling looks like it lost a bar fight with history

English spelling is not broken so much as visibly injured. A video by Airlearn Language Show explains how the printing press, the Great Vowel Shift, dead gods, French-Italian beef, Dutch typesetters, and Renaissance Latin nerds left English looking like it staggered out of a tavern with Wednesday in one pocket and colonel in the other. — Read the rest The post Why English spelling looks like it lost a bar fight with history appeared first on Boing Boing.

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