Neuroscience
From The New York Times:
OPINION
Room for Debate: Does the Brain Like E-Books?
By By The Editors
Published: October 14, 2009
"How the reading experience differs between paper and screen."
Read the entry and the debate
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Neuroscience
"Does the Brain Like E-Books?"
From The New York Times:
OPINION
Room for Debate: Does the Brain Like E-Books?
By By The Editors
Published: October 14, 2009
"How the reading experience differs between paper and screen."
Read the entry and the debate
- Extremes Of Memory
Like a Skyline Is Etched in His Head By JIM DWYER The New York Times Published: October 28, 2009 "Stephen Wiltshire, working only from the memory of a helicopter flight over New York, has been rendering the city’s 305 square miles along an arc of paper...
- Dopamine
A Molecule of Motivation, Dopamine Excels at Its Task By NATALIE ANGIER The New York Times Published: October 27, 2009 "A view has emerged to counter the image that a neurotransmitter is the little Bacchus of our brain." Read the article...
- Promoting Academic Writing
Interesting piece in today's New York Times about writers taking promotional book "tours" via blogs: The Author Will Take Q.’s Now By KARA JESELLA Published: September 2, 2007 [snip] Bloggers have written about books since, well, the beginning of...
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Heard Tim Spaulding's talk at last October's NEASIS&T Embedded Library program (link to podcast & more info) about LibraryThing and I got inspired. I'd heard about it for ages, of course, but finally I had some time to play with it today....
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Wow! Great article by the New York Times reporting on a project by the Portland (ME) Public Library to turn weeded books into art. 186 weeded books were "altered" by artists and given new life in the catalog. A subject search for Altered Books - Maine...