How much faster is writing cursive than block letters?

It isn't. 1. Introduction: There is a time in every man's education when he comes to the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; and that science isn't something that happens only to other people. 1 For me, that moment came when I read Ruth Daniel's excellent essay testing whether salting pasta water makes it taste better. 2 Before then, it hadn't occurred that I could…