Learning the ABCs was the way most English-speaking Americans began their journey in formal education. We were taught to sing the “Alphabet Song” before we were potty trained. The ABCs ran, in order, ...

Computers are designed top-to-bottom for Latin-language users, but this one-size-fits-all thinking has created decades of difficulty for the rest of the world—particularly China. This story first ...

The story of the QWERTY layout begins with the invention of the mechanical typewriter in the 19th Century. In the early 1870s, an American inventor named Christopher Latham Sholes, along with his ...

We use the keyboards we use simply because they’re the ones we’ve always used. Is this the most efficient layout of letters? Hephzibah Anderson takes a look. They may not be quite as superstitious as ...

Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology and writes on topics from zoology and psychology to herpetology.View full profile Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology ...