Links: Austrian Award Winners, Challenging Fonts & Gaming in Tents

When people first hear about this work, they're surprised. The findings are counterintuitive. Why should making something harder to read make it easier to remember? But the findings are more intuitive if you reframe them. For instance, we've all skimmed through text, got to the end, and realized we didn't process the information very well. Making text harder to skim prevents that from happening. So it's not terribly surprising that causing people to slow down and read more carefully improves their recall. Of course, we don't want to make material so hard to read that people can't understand it. There's a happy medium here.