Sharon Begley has a piece in Mindful about mirror neurons, and how it turns out we’re not really sure that humans have them after all, mainly because "the
The Wall Street Journal reports on a new study of productivity, accessibility, and worker effectiveness: Reading and sending work email on a smartphone late into the evening doesn’t
Ian Bogost has a terrific essay about how video games are designed to be time-consuming and addictive, and how those qualities translate into revenue and goosed stock prices
Damon Young has a new book in the School of Life series, How to Think About Exercise. He says a bit about it on the Australian bookstore blog
Sherry Turkle recently published an op ed in the New York Times about selfies and "The Documented Life." In it, she argues that the focus on taking selfies,
This new study is pretty amazing: With evidence growing that meditation can have beneficial health effects, scientists have sought to understand how these practices physically affect the body.
Linda Stone, who gave us the idea of continuous partial attention and email apnea, has a new essay outlining her idea for an Essential Self movement: The entire
The San Jose Mercury News is running a big series on how information technology is affecting modern life, and this weekend they had a long piece on gratification.
I've followed digital sabbaths and cellphone-free vacations for a while, but everybody else can give it up now: Peter Higgs wins. The media spotlight has often been too
The Atlantic reports on a recent study in the "Journal of Consumer Psychology [that] suggests that spending time focusing on images of food makes the food itself less