Hard Fork Podcast
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Saturday 06 September 2025 13:43:05 GMT
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jbracer007 :
We are not getting smarter. They have studies on this. IQ is going down for the first time in over 100 years.
2025-09-06 14:20:09
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Todienomore Press :
SCHOOLS DO NOT READ WHOLE BOOKS. They read passages from text and don’t finish the book because of test taking culture.
2025-09-07 17:59:34
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Coach Yasas | The Pivot Path :
are you trying to discourage reading?
2025-11-02 03:31:13
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Lexis Fay :
I believe #BookTok will turn this around.
2025-10-23 14:41:52
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Prof. KC :
I’ve been a teacher for a decade. Idk where he is getting the data to support that students are getting smarter.
2025-10-20 10:25:37
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Goran Jankuloski :
So weird seing you for the first time. I usually just listen. You look nothing like I imagined.
2025-11-11 10:04:59
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user5150271291529 :
I teach high school English. My seniors are reading Red Rising and loving it. All 22 of them. One finished it three weeks early and is on book 2. Another is almost done with it two weeks early. We need to encourage long form literacy and use the right novels to do it. We can’t give up on reading fiction because it benefits society.
2025-09-06 16:16:27
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Chakka :
he is wrong
2025-11-09 04:56:29
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user8910417703103 :
This guy is such a defeatist, how dare he work in academia
2025-09-06 17:47:41
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K :
We won't advance if we continue making laws based on outdated mythical stories that have absolutely no room for any advancement, while keeping half of the population (women and girls) indebted from just being born female.
2025-10-25 16:10:11
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vm :
No way, the professor of science and technology thinks reading is obsolete?
2025-09-06 20:11:06
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David :
Fascinating. Almost everything he said was wrong.
2025-09-07 18:20:47
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Captain Juneteenth 🇺🇲 :
I smell a fraud.
2025-09-07 00:34:52
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louchosen :
take one look at this guy he's never read "long-form" literature or scholarly works of any kind, ever: guaranteed. how he was chosen to comment on a topic so far beyond his exclusive area of expertise (degeneracy via abuse of alcohol, people, animals, video game addiction, gambling etc)? must be an amusing or at least clarifying backstory there
2025-09-07 00:30:55
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NathanWhite :
humans used orality and oral tradition for millennia before printing so I don’t see the issue
2025-09-06 16:17:20
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JuliaOzubko :
This! Let’s accept it and move on, educators! Societies change, let’s adapt with them.
2025-09-06 15:14:08
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louiscifer :
Textuality is not finished. People created it for a purpose. Our brains crave it. The same people who loved reading aren’t being fed by short form video content. They might consume it, but they also read long essays and, yes, books.
2025-09-06 18:30:02
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Skoolboi36 :
As an 8th grade ELA teacher all I can say is: not on my watch! In my class you will read, period! I’ll die on that hill ✊🏽
2025-09-17 10:29:19
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Obsidian Rising Consulting :
This makes me so sad. I love books and the experience it provides. The holding the book, flipping the pages, the scent a new book has...all of it. Sadly, I sense that slowly we will move away from books to the digital ebooks and podcasts only.
2025-09-06 14:05:23
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Rafa :
I still think people need to learn how to read long texts….
2025-09-27 05:11:31
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LouLouKazoo :
“People are getting smarter” no they absolutely are not.
2025-10-26 18:08:35
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Katie Craft :
bring👏back👏full👏novels👏
2025-11-02 16:15:34
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OHF Partners :
Ooooo I was excited to hear, but he is very wrong. He just doesn’t understand the future
2025-09-06 21:50:10
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tomiigatchii :
This seems very counter to the recent resurgence in reading for enjoyment (and aesthetics). Also, reading is a form of thinking. Watching is a form of thinking. Listening is a form of thinking. Writing is a form of thinking. Each must work in tandem if they can.
2025-09-06 20:00:53
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