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Ebooks com wants to make reading easier for dyslexic readers
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When was the last time you read every single word on a website? I bet it was a long time ago. People do not read on digital screens the same way they read physical paper books.
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How France convinced high-school students to read real news
A massive nationwide experiment in French high schools proves that free newspaper subscriptions and teacher training significantly improve youth media literacy and civic knowledge.
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Books in translation: how Europe reads between the lines (report)
We like to pretend Europe is a rich mosaic of different languages. The data tells another story. The new report shows that English dominates our bookshops so heavily that smaller local voices are simply getting priced out.
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Is the age of reading over?
In a world full of fast digital distractions, the ability to read long texts is turning into a rare skill. The Atlantic claims the age of reading is finished, but could this decline actually give a massive advantage to the few who still read?
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A new study finds that 94% of AI-written college papers go undetected
A team from the University of Reading conducted an experiment to assess the detectability of AI-generated academic work.
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Here are the 5 winners and all 25 finalists of the 2024 National Book Awards
Barbara Kingsolver and Percival Everett have been announced the winners at the 75th National Book Awards, during a ceremony gala held on November 20, in New York.
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Top US universities in 2024, plus postgraduate 10-year salary
Here are the top 25 colleges in America in 2024, according to Forbes, together with their respective median postgraduate 10-year salary.
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Which countries publish the most books (infographic)
A new infographic shows top countries by region, based on the number of registered ISBNs.
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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
by CAL NEWPORT
I remember when I first encountered Facebook: It was the spring of 2004; I was a senior in college and began to notice an increasing number of my friends talk about a website called thefacebook.com. The first person to show me an actual Facebook profile was Julie, who was then my girlfriend, and now my wife.
“My memory of it was that it was a novelty,” she told me recently. “It had been sold to us as a virtual version of our printed freshman directory, something we could use to look up the boyfriends or girlfriends of people we knew.”
The key word in this memory is novelty. Facebook didn’t arrive in our world with a promise to radically transform the rhythms of our social and civic lives; it was just one diversion among many. In the spring of 2004, the people I knew who signed up for thefacebook.com were almost certainly spending significantly more time playing Snood (a Tetris-style puzzle game that was inexplicably popular) than they were tweaking their profiles or poking their virtual friends.
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The Call of Cthulhu
by H. P. LOVECRAFT
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents. They have hinted at strange survivals in terms which would freeze the blood if not masked by a bland optimism. But it is not from them that there came the single glimpse of forbidden eons which chills me when I think of it and maddens me when I dream of it.
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