February 2012
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The culture of distraction is rewiring our brains, making us less happy, less...
– How I Stopped the Multitasking Madness One man’s quest to go from manic multitasker to Zen unitasker in one month flat.
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If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work...
– The Rise of the New Groupthink via New York Times
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In barely one generation we’ve moved from exulting in the time-saving devices...
– The Joy of Quiet via New York Times
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Why go to such great lengths to make and photograph a painting that will net 5...
– DIS MAGAZINE HOLDS A COLLABORATIVE DISCUSSION ABOUT ARTISTS’ SOCIAL LIVES ON FACEBOOK
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The Delancey Underground project aims to convert an unused trolley terminal...
– Delancey Underground
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For decades, Target has collected vast amounts of data on every person who...
– How Companies Learn Your Secrets via NYTimes
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In 2007 or 2008, I started listening to R&B on this road trip with my dad...
– Grimes on Mariah Carey. (via pitchfork)
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Augmented reality headsets are closer than you... →
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SonicNotify, a startup funded by MGMT’s record label Cantora, developed an App...
– via Prote.in
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WOLFRAM ALPHA →
Wolfram Alpha is one of a number of efforts to build greater understanding of the meaning of words — or semantics — into search, said Oren Etzioni, a computer scientist at the University of Washington. I.B.M.’s Watson, Apple’s Siri and Wolfram Alpha rely on structured databases of knowledge, while Google and Bing are trying to add more semantic understanding into general search engines. -...
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Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011 →
via Typographica
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Could it be that teaching children how to delay gratification—as middle-class...
– Why French Parents are Superior via WSJ
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If you eschew face-to-face communication, you don’t learn critical things...
– Study: Multitasking hinders youth social skills via CNN
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