Reflections on serendipity
In between applying for jobs and working on my latest book proposal (working title, Contemplative Computing and the Goblet of Fire), I read Andrew Keen's article on social
“when ideas and solutions appear pat, cute, easy, or triumphant, they’re almost certainly wrong”
Balloon Juice: I think TED talks are the worst example of modern faux-intellectualism. Audience flattering, based on ego and personality, dripping with self-congratulation, they contribute to one of
Technology and culture: Paralyzed woman learns to control robot arm with brain, drinks coffee
But seriously, this a big thing. News out of John Donoghue's Brain Institute at Brown University: A woman who lost the use of her limbs after a devastating stroke
Shortening grad school completion times
Inside Higher Ed has yet another in the never-ending series of "rethinking the humanities Ph.D." articles. But for once, it's not just about "rethinking" (which too often is
“We’re drowning in email:” The Email Charter’s call for change
Indicative of the times we live in: the Email Charter. We're drowning in email. And the many hours we spend on it are generating ever more work for
Authorship is like parenting
I'm starting to get feedback about the contemplative computing book manuscript, about a month after I sent it out, and it occurs to me that an author's relationship
Graph of the day
Microhate by number of slides, by Alexis Madrigal.
“The brain doesn’t really need that much stimulus in order to create a virtual reality”
A profile of cyborg anthropologist Amber Case. Case has been studying how becoming more digital changes the way we think and act. The cyborg was envisioned as a
Gloria Mark et al on e-mail, multitasking and stress
UCI researchers Gloria Mark and Stephen Voida, and Army researcher Armand Cardello, conducted a study of email use in the workplace, and found what should surprise no one:
Venn diagram of the day
From The New Inquiry: Essentially, it's a graphic version of the great Jeff Hammerbacher line, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click