Is it a distraction to talk about “brains” rather than “minds”?
Thinking about the Baroness Greenfield interview, and responses to warnings that computers are affecting our brains, I wonder if we're talking about "brains" when we should be talking
Technology vs. the brain: Susan Greenfield on distraction, cognition, socialization, privacy
The Mark, a Canadian magazine publishing on technology and culture, has an interview with Baroness Susan Greenfield, director of the Oxford Institute for the Future of the Mind
Another reason I wish the BBC player worked in the US
Unfortunately I didn't see "The Big Silence," a documentary about five people on a week-long silent retreat, which aired on BCC Two last fall. Serena Davis' piece about
The iPhone tracking controversy, and why I gave up Foursquare and Last.fm
As an iPhone user, I've been interested in the iPhone tracking controversy, but I haven't been that surprised that it was creating such a file, nor that the
Stefan Sagmeister: “It’s much easier to return emails than to actually think about something new”
Artist Stefan Sagmeister is famous for taking a year-long sabbatical every seven years (what is he, an academic or something?). In this brief interview, he talks about that