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 Send to email | Thinking about reading in General |  By Rough Ty
el 03-Jan-2012 | To mark its 21st birthday, Vintage Books has released a collection of essays on reading called Stop What You're Doing and Read This! Contributors include Zadie Smith, Mark Haddon, Tim Parks, and Blake Morrison. I also have a piece in the book, "The Dreams of Readers," in which I mull over my own experience as a reader and try to connect it with some of the interesting new research, by scholars like Keith Oatley at the University of Toronto, that's being done on the psychology of literary reading. Here's a short excerpt from my essay: When we open a book, it seems that we really do enter, as far as our brains are concerned, a new world ? one conjured not just out of the author?s words but out of our own memories and desires ? and it is our cognitive immersion in that world that gives reading its rich emotional force. Psychologists draw a distinction between two kinds of emotions that can be inspired by a work of art. There are the ?aesthetic emotions? that we feel when we view art from a distance, as a spectator: a sense of beauty or of wonder, for instance, or a feeling...
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| Thinking about reading | | To mark its 21st birthday, Vintage Books has released a collection of essays on reading called Stop What You're Doing and Read This! Contributors include Zadie Smith, Mark Haddon, Tim Parks, and Blake Morrison. I also have a piece in the book, "The Dreams of Readers," in which I mull over my own experience as a reader and try to connect it with some of the interesting new research, by scholars lik [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Jan-2012 by Rough Ty in General
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| Reading Blinds ? a YUI-powered Reading Tool |  Ever since I got upgraded to a shiny Macbook Pro and a 24 inch monitor at work I had a web experience that differed a lot from what I had before. Web sites that were easy and nice to read out of a sudden showed a massive amount of white space that actually hurt my [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Sep-2008 by Christian Heilmann in Development
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| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
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| FIFA 11 'Personality+' is not quite what we were thinking | 
The new "Personality+" feature in FIFA 11 isn't exactly what our minds conjured for a feature with that name -- charismatic footballers cheerily encouraging each other, helping up fallen opponents and maintaining a mo [..] Read complete article | | Published 24-Jun-2010 by Ben Gilbert in dsEAEA-SportsElectronic-ArtsFIFA-11microsoftnintendopcplaystationps3pspwiixbox
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| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Joystiq | Blogger | Covers video game news from an independent, unbiased perspective
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| Joystiq | Blogger | Covers video game news from an independent, unbiased perspective
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| GoldenEye 007 DS preview: 'A thinking man's FPS' | 
Developer n-Space has been responsible for the DS installments of Activision's biggest FPS franchise, Call of Duty. With handheld versions of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, World at War and Mo [..] Read complete article | | Published 16-Sep-2010 by David Hinkle in activisiondsgoldeneyegoldeneye-007-2010James-Bondn-spacenintendo
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| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| On reading evolution polls |  A couple weeks ago, Fox News released a new poll asking about evolution and creationism. It didn't strike me as especially noteworthy, though it does show a statistically significant rise in acceptance of evolution (21% think "the theory of evolution as outlined by Darwin and other scientist" is "more likely to be the explanation for the origin of human life on earth") since they last asked th [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Sep-2011 by Thoughts in Creationism
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