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While cramming symbols tightly together may have seemed like a brilliant way to save on parchment, scientists are now beginning to understand that this design decision runs afoul of the way the brain processes visual information.

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I grew up in a tiny New York City apartment, packed in alongside our four cats and my father's immense personal library of some 3000 books.

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