SmartBook represents a breakthrough achievement in reading, as it breaks the centuries-old tradition of books as linear experiences that presume to be read in their entirety, and in a pre-defined sequence, in order to be understood.

ENGADGET: McGraw-Hill reveals the SmartBook: an 'adaptive' e-book for students

Following that tradition, the brainiacs over at the University of Reading have developed a new nano-material electrode coating based on the cellular structure of plants.

ENGADGET: Nature-inspired nano-material builds a better electrode, points to greener future (video)

Bronfman began reading a daily portion of the Talmud, a book of Jewish tradition, under the tutoring of WJC Secretary General Israel Singer.

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As formal education took hold, Latin language and literature studies introduced young people to a second, more worldly experience of reading one that, offered in the name of the time-honored tradition of the classical education, did not seem incompatible with their Bible studies.

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