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If you want to help out struggling post office employees you can send more letters, and while you're at it you might want to make the address as illegible as possible. 95% of our mail is sorted by computer, but last year 714,085,866 letters with incomprehensible writing were deciphered the country's two Remote Encoding Centers in Salt Lake City, Utah and Wichita, Kansas. There 1,900 clerks see scanned images of the letters and try to make sense of what the machines couldn't. More »
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Research shows that handwriting practice isn't just a useless task your teachers concocted to annoy you — it could actually make kids smarter. More »
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Cursive is officially dead, at least according to a survey of incoming freshmen. It's bad news for avid letter writers, but could be good news for boys? More »
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During her court hearing earlier this week, Lindsay Lohan was seen writing neat, detailed notes with a red pen. When she used the piece of paper to cover her face, photographers snapped a hi-res image. More »
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Fellow nerds who were super into calligraphy as kids: apparently no one's into handwriting anymore. I know: Next you're gonna tell us nerds aren't blending their own perfumes that all smell the same! More »
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