Spaces between words were only invented around 800 or 900 AD, before which reading was a more cognitively intensive act. The advent of eReaders threatens to revive this complexity, says Nicholas Carr.
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Your Life Is A Transmedia Experience
Your Life Is A Transmedia Experience
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How to Solve Creative Blocks
People have trouble living creatively when they don
Linchpin Sessions
One minute animated excerpt from a live audio recording from a Seth Godin speech in New York City! You can hear the full speech here! Designed/Animated by Terry Rayment of Eskimo
Laughing in the Face of Adversity
Comedy isn’t just about making people laugh, it’s about making people think as Ricky Gervais argues
The Neuroscience of Internet Addiction
The Internet might actually be diminishing our capacity to form long-term memories as Nicholas Carr argues!! This totally explains why I cant remember anything 🙂
Happiness: The Opiate of the People?
Sure happiness is great, but what about groundbreaking yet tortured artists and unhappy but principled workaholic reformers? And is the theory of positive psychology fodder for governments to make citizens responsible for their own happiness despite material deficiencies? Tal Ben Shahar, author of Happier, takes on these arguments!