In an essay in The Atlantic last year, the technology writer Nicholas Carr argued that the power-skimming, link-hopping and window-toggling that define the Internet experience have eroded the old practice of reading unbroken stretches of prose, with grave implications for our writing.
Last month Apple also raised concerns about the IP bill's implications for encryption, writing in its own submission to the committee that: "The best minds in the world cannot rewrite the laws of mathematics.
The paper concludes with some pedagogical implications for L2 writing instruction.
We also present a framework for additional research on biologists' conceptions and assumptions about HOCS questioning and discuss the implications for people who write HOCS questions or train others to write them.
The diminution of variation that typically accompanies "the rise in general excellence" also explains the preponderance of draw games in chess, the decrease in scoring in soccer and the closeness of recent presidential elections (with "excellence" referring to campaign strategies rather than candidates), and has major implications, Gould writes, for theories of evolution.
"Whatever mistakes were made, government clashes with the state broadcaster are dangerous; there are implications for every journalist," wrote Jon Snow, who anchors the 7 p.m. news on the rival Channel 4, a commercial broadcaster, in the e-mail newsletter he sends before his broadcast each evening.
This perspective also has implications for analysis of written texts, as reading is the pedagogic activity through which their authors' knowledge is exchanged.
"It would be a huge mistake to bet that evolving atmospheric changes are benign in their implications for insurers," Buffett wrote in his letter.
