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High-Altitude Language, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
July 10, 2013
On the Shelf
Reading can affect the behavior of those who identify strongly with the central characters,
a new study
(and a million Twi-hards) finds.
In other research news:
a controversial linguistics study
suggests that high altitude can directly impact the development of languages.
“Civil libertarians and consumer advocates call it
digital book-burning
: censoring, erasing, altering or restricting access to books in electronic formats.”
The activist group Geeks Out has called for
a boycott
of the upcoming
Ender’s Game
film in protest of author Orson Scott Card, who opposes same-sex marriage. Card responds, in part, “
Ender’s Game
is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984.”
In less fraught
lit-cinematic news
, Charlie Kaufman is taking on the adaptation of
Slaughterhouse-Five.
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