SHIRLEY STRUM KENNY, PRESIDENT OF STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY -- Ms. Kenny said she gets lost reading novels on Sunday afternoons.
Summer is when students spend the most time out of school in any one sitting, and it's also when children and teenagers most easily lose reading proficiency.
Reads were mapped with Bowtie 2's local alignment (soft clipping) setting to avoid losing reads at the exon boundaries.
Nicholas Carr, in "The Shallows," William Powers, in "Hamlet's BlackBerry," and Sherry Turkle, in "Alone Together," all bear intimate witness to a sense that the newfound land, the ever-present BlackBerry-and-instant-message world, is one whose price, paid in frayed nerves and lost reading hours and broken attention, is hardly worth the gains it gives us.
Sure, you'll get lost reading Darkness and Day, maybe hypnotized, probably even bored.
What have we got to lose?" Reads A quick note: if you have suggestions for future Reads, please send them along via Twitter to @micahcohen, or let us know in a comment to any FiveThirtyEight post.
"It is true that we have an unfair society, and it is true that kids who are coming from the poorer backgrounds and whose parents don't do a lot of reading are losing reading skills over the summer," said Peter Gray, research professor of psychology at Boston College.
No PROs were used in this study, but other work reported here (e.g. [ 12], Mitchell, 2003) has indicated the impact of losing reading fluency due to MD and it is likely that there would be a positive impact on QoL for people trained in eccentric viewing or assisted by low vision aids to regain reading fluency.
"Nothing was lost," we read in the first story.
If we're measuring impact in terms of months of sleep lost, I read Stephen King's "It" in middle school and remained moon-eyed and haunted for six months.
The raw data for the other two T. brucei transcriptomes have been lost but read counts are in the supplement.
