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#television
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Seeing TV for what it really was
Someone turned on the TV. The colors were brilliant, images seemingly jumped off the screen, and there was a fuzzy 3-D quality to the newscaster. I instantly felt I could grasp all her psychological problems, those which led her to being on TV playing the role of newscaster. I…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Fertilizers and toxins for a smart baby
Regardless of their genes, you can help your children mobilize their intelligence as fully as Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, or the most successful innovators working today. Just how do you grow a smart baby? We’re thinking in terms of soil, so it makes sense to formulate…
Television and aggressive children
decades we have known of the connection between hostile peer interactions and the amount of kids’ exposure to television. The linkage used to be controversial (maybe aggressive people watch more TV than others?), but we now see that it’s an issue of our deferred-imitation…
TV damages toddlers' attention spans
TV also poisons attention spans and the ability to focus, a classic hallmark of executive function. For each additional hour of TV watched by a child under the age of 3, the likelihood of an attentional problem by age 7 increased by about 10 percent. So a preschooler who…
David Cameron's New Year Message
Cameron's list of British virtues
Resilient. Realistic. Intelligent. Curious. Enterprising. Inventive. Unswerving. It's the spirit that has made our universities among the best in the world, our scientists Nobel prizewinners, our athletes gold medal winners, our culture, our music and our television famous…
Hamlet On The Holodeck
The networked computer
The networked computer acts like a telephone in offering one-to-one real-time communication, like a television in broadcasting moving pictures, like an auditorium in bringing groups together for lectures and discussions, like a library in offering vast amounts of textual…
Limiting Children's Screen Time Linked To Better Cognition - Bbc News
Children's screen time linked to cognition
Children aged eight to 11 who used screens for fun for less than two hours a day performed better in tests of mental ability, a study found. Combining this with nine to 11 hours of sleep a night was found to be best for performance. Researchers said more work was now needed to…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Pleasure as a center wastes a life
Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
A mescaline trip filmed by the BBC
During the mid-1950s Christopher Mayhew, former journalist and author (and at the time a member of Parliament), took mescaline under the supervision of Humphry Osmond, the same Osmond who had been responsible for Aldous Huxley’s first trip. The entire session was filmed by a…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Screens do not make us passive
The route from here to this dystopia seems very unclear. Greenfield bases her worries on the idea that screen culture is essentially ‘sensational’, that it bombards us with discrete experiences which do not forge the kinds of connections that make us into Someones. She seems to…