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Young Doctors Trained at an Art Gallery
Dr. Irwin Braverman, a dermatologist and director of medical residents at Yale medical school, was concerned about his students' power of attention. ...
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Satire of a Man Who Almost Enjoyed Himself
The satirical site The Onion ran the following fictitious story titled "Man On Cusp Of Having Fun Suddenly Remembers Every Single One Of His Responsibilities." ...
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You Have a Shorter Attention Span than a Goldfish
A study by Microsoft of 2,000 consumers discovered some interesting things. The first is that the average human attention span has gone down. In 2000 ...
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Alarm Clock Designed to Wake Only You
In the ongoing battle against oversleeping, humanity has devised some clever alarm clocks. But for all their clever designs, most alarm clocks still suffer ...
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Pictures on Smartphones Can't Replace Real Life
For more than five hundred years the city of Florence has marked Easter with a wild ceremony called (in English) "the explosion of the cart." ...
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Binge Reading Disorder
How much do you read on an average day? Recent research by Lifehack says that "an average social media user 'reads' 285 pieces of content ...
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The 'Murti-Bing Pill' Helped a Nation Escape Reality
During the height of Marxism in Eastern Europe, the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz (pronounced Ches-wav Me-wosh) explained how so many intelligent people ...
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Musical Magic Ruined by Cell Phone
On a warm late-August Tuesday evening, music critic David Hajdu wandered into a Greenwich Village (New York City) jazz hotspot called the Vanguard. He ...
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Our Niagara Falls-Like Flood of Data
We are in the age of gargantuan numbers, truly instant information, ceaselessly hyperactive social media, when the World Wide Web has become a flood-driven ...
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The Benefits of Ignoring Notifications
How many times do you check Twitter? What about Facebook? Don't forget Instagram. Like Pavlov's dog we are being trained with beeps, buzzes, and ...
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