Tag: Reading
6 article(s) found with this tag.
Dear reader
Summer 2010
A printed magazine story sits alone on a page with relatively little competition for the reader's attention. An online story sits only a few keystrokes from a torrent of other stories, tweets, videos, free classifieds and emails. And why exactly does this matter?
Categories: Computer sciences, English, Communication
Tags: Digital world, Reading, Internet, Computers, Brain
Booked: The Long Sentence of an Apprentice Reader
Summer 2010
What would it mean to refuse connectedness? Is it even possible?
Categories: Literature, English
Tags: Digital world, Reading, Technology, Books
Everybody reads
Winter 2008
When Mary Roach was researching her book on human cadavers, she
attended a seminar where plastic surgeons practiced techniques on
severed human heads. She also visited a body farm in Tennessee to
see remains in various states of decay. And she sto...
Categories: Literature
Tags: Cadavers, Reading
Washington State loves its literature
Summer 2005
In a report released last summer, the National Endowment for the Arts
warned that literary reading has declined over the last 20 years. Scary
stuff, huh? So we did our own informal survey of faculty, students, and
alums. Their response? Read on!
Categories: Literature, Campus life
Tags: Books, Reading, Library
As you read this, thank your ion channels
Fall 2004
When Mike Varnum, assistant professor, Veterinary and
Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology, visits the
aquarium, he looks at the sea creatures a bit differently than the
rest of us. What interests him most about a creature is not its
...
Categories: Health sciences
Tags: Reading, Eyes
A common reader: Overcoming inertia
Fall 2002
I’d like you to meet someone. He’s a vulnerable fellow, rather
too open to the joys and despairs of deep remembering. His life,
therefore, is disordered but rich, evocative but dangerously
reflective. He gets along, he thinks too well, he cuts...
Categories: Literature
Tags: Reading