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On the Leash
Rabbi David Wolpe wrote for Time why he sees the constant communication of modern life as a bad thing. Wolpe says, "Constant connection, increases, ...
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Study Shows Cell Phone Separation Anxiety
Researchers from the University of Missouri wanted to know how subjects behaved when parted from their iPhones, so they recruited 208 students for a survey ...
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A Parable about Missing the Obvious
A customs officer observes a truck pulling up at the border. Suspicious, he orders the driver out and searches the vehicle. He pulls off the panels, bumpers, ...
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The New Social Technology: Loss of Solitude
Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at M.I.T., has interviewed hundreds of people of all ages about their daily fixations ...
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Black-hole Resorts Designed to Help You Unplug
In an article titled "The Joy of Quiet," author Pico Iyer mentions a cliff-top room in Big Sur where people pay $2,285 a night partly for the ...
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The Secret to Effective Tightrope Walking
There's a special word for those tightrope walkers who display amazing feats of balance on a high wire—they're called funambulists. In his ...
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Film 'Gravity' Portrays Our Spiritual Condition
In the 2013 film, Gravity, Dr. Ryan Stone, played by Sandra Bullock, is a medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky, ...
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Study Finds that We Can't See Money on Trees
Does money grow on trees? Even if it did, many of us might not notice it. That's the conclusion from a team of researchers who were studying something ...
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Study: People Prefer Electrocution to Quiet Time
We all crave a "little peace and quiet," from time to time, but a study sheds (ahem) shocking light on how hard it actually is for us to deal ...
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The Lost Treasure of 'Purposeless Walking'
A BBC article bemoans the death of "purposeless walking," that ambulatory habit of thinkers and creatives since time immemorial. In wheel-transit ...
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