Alyssa Kramer can say any word backward. Assyla Remark nac yas yna drow drawkcacb. The 14-year-old from Poteau, Okla., can flip words around and spit them back out almost instantly -- it took me, on ...

I always wanted to be a spy. Wouldn’t it be cool to save the world by chasing bad guys from roof to roof in a crowded, far-off city? I doubt the CIA will be calling me anytime soon, but today I have a ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- It's like an easy game for 14-year-old Alyssa Kramer. She can easily say words backwards in seconds. Her video on YouTube quickly got a million hits, and now she has her own ...

Quick, what do the words level, radar, deified, rotator and pullup have in common? Yes, they’re palindromes. Palindromes are, of course, words that are the same spelled forward or backward.

Our brains are actually pretty great at filling in gaps, but that’s a bad thing when you’re scanning for spelling errors. If you want to focus more on each word, you need to put things in reverse. If ...