May 2012
“Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed...”
– The New York Times’ Annie Murphy Paul explores the neuroscience of your brain on fiction and how narratives offer a way to engage the brain’s capacity to map other people’s intentions, known in psychology as “theory of mind.” (via mollyirwin)
“I’d like librarians to forget about content for a little while – we solved that...”
– A failure of imagination – the problem with format neutrality | It’s Not About the Books (via infoneer-pulse)
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WatchGetting The Book Invented
By Eleanor Stokes
A stop motion animation explaining the devolpment of the book.
“20 years ago Douglas Adams created a wonderful 2-minute audio to promote the debut of Voyager’s Expanded Books. Sophie Rochester of the Literary Platform in London had the lovely idea of commemorating Douglas by hosting a competition to animate the audio. The winner was...
“It’s not just about the knowledge that you’re importing. It’s also about the...”
– Patrick Pfeiffer on writing books (via unendingvoyage)
