Musical Magic Ruined by Cell Phone

On a warm late-August Tuesday evening, music critic David Hajdu wandered into a Greenwich Village (New York City) jazz hotspot called the Vanguard. He ...

On the Leash

Rabbi David Wolpe wrote for Time why he sees the constant communication of modern life as a bad thing. Wolpe says, "Constant connection, increases, ...

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 ...

Our Instant Gratification Society Has a Cost

An article in The Boston Globe claims that our "demand for instant results is seeping into every corner of our lives." The need for instant gratification ...

Our 'Sleep Less, Do More' Society

A Newsweek article provided both a historical look at sleep trends and practical advice about how to get more rest. According to the writer, we are to ...

The Death of the Third Place

Deane Barker, writing for the popular BoingBoing site, laments the death of America's "third places." These are the gathering spots, neither ...

Our ICYMI World

ICYMI stands for "In Case You Missed It,” (in case you didn't know). It is most often used on Twitter to re-promote an interesting link, ...

Living by Apps Alone

Henry Alford, a writer for The New York Times, undertook a personal challenge to improve his life only through apps for three weeks. (He is not a fan ...

Stats on Our Excessive Social Media Use

The following statistics suggest that our culture is being subjected to information overload:

• 73 percent of adults now use a social networking site of some kind.

Password Protected?

We live in a password protected world, where our most important data, secrets, even money, are locked behind a "secure" password. But with recent ...