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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook and the Unhappy Marriage

Usually on social media sites like Facebook, marriage is portrayed in a positive light. Most of the pictures you see are lighthearted, cheery, funny, ...

1968 Letter Decried too Much Violence on TV

On April 4th, 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Two months later (June 6th), Robert F. Kennedy was also shot and killed. That very ...

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 ...

The Slow Path to Sexual Addiction

Mike Cosper writes in “The Stories We Tel”:

A few years ago I met with a church member who was struggling with sexual sin with his girlfriend, ...

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 ...

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, ...