American anxiety: The three real reasons why we are more stressed than ever before. - By Taylor Clark - Slate Magazine
february 2011 by aheilbut
"The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s."
stress
culture
psychology
february 2011 by aheilbut
Questions for the Novelist Gary Shteyngart - The Russian Immigrant’s Handbook - Interview - NYTimes.com
july 2010 by aheilbut
Silence is so over.
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it’s important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
culture
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it’s important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
july 2010 by aheilbut
Does the Internet Make You Smarter? - WSJ.com
june 2010 by aheilbut
Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads. It only takes a fractional shift in the direction of participation to create remarkable new educational resources.
internet
culture
crowdsourcing
media
june 2010 by aheilbut
Business.view | America's emobyte deficit | Economist.com
november 2007 by aheilbut
Some 42% of the young Chinese said they sometimes feel “addicted” to living online, compared to only 18% of Americans. Perhaps those young Chinese should get a life.
china
funny
economist
internet
culture
november 2007 by aheilbut
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