After a couple weeks break while I moved into my apartment in Saint Paul, the Saturday Book Club reconvened to begin discussing Adrian Johns’ 2023 book, *The Science of Reading: Information, Media & Mind in Modern America*. Although I had originally been a bit skeptical, I’m enjoying this book. We discussed languages and reading, the particularity of the reading experience, a bit of book history, the fact that this was a COVID book, Jacques Barzun, Eric Weinstein, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Kuhn, Michio Kaku, and the problem of creating collegiality in a remote and increasingly asynchronous learning environment.![[Screenshot 2024-09-09 at 3.29.06 PM.png]] Video Link: https://vimeo.com/987743708/756799f1ea?share=copy Podcast Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-allosso/episodes/The-Science-of-Reading--Meeting-1-e2m8rsq