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When New Technology Makes Us Its Servant
In the early 1890s, French painter Auguste Renoir overheard two of his colleagues, Edgar Degas and Jean-Louis Forain, talking about the technological ...
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Over-Notified
How many times does your phone buzz or beep notifying you of a news story, a social media post, or a new email. Dave Pell wrote a humorous blog, saying ...
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America's Unique 'Quiet Zone'
Imagine a cell phone free zone. Actually, the United States has such a place. It's called "The Quiet Zone." Anyone driving west from Washington ...
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Addicted to Distraction
You ever find yourself reading the same paragraph over and over again, not remembering anything that was said in that paragraph? Or you spend many hours ...
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Removed: No Phones Allowed
American photographer Eric Pickersgill came up with a fantastic project called "Removed." He removes handheld devices from his pictures to show ...
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Distracted People Miss Clown on Unicycle
As [one researcher has] described it, our brain blinds our mind to the unusual. For instance, in one study, researchers put a clown on a unicycle in the ...
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Statistics on Our Drop in Attention Span
According to the research of the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the average attention span has dropped from 12 seconds in 2000 to just ...
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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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