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
Ambient religious communication
Arizona State professor Pauline Hope Cheong has an interesting article about the use of Twitter and microblogging and "ambient religious communication:" What would Jesus tweet? Historically, the quest