Technology Has Hijacked Family Dinner Time

Technology has hijacked family dinnertime. So to help bring families together for dinner, Dolmio created the Pepper Hacker. It cracks pepper, shuts down TVs, wipes out WiFi and disables mobile devices. Watch their experiment reclaim family dinnertime.

Plasticity and Imagination

The understanding of the brain’s activity conveyed by popular scientific writing misses much of the continuum of thought and consciousness. We are fascinated at the supposed correspondence of anatomy to function shown in the images of radioactive glucose uptake. We are astonished at the ability of a handicapped woman’s brain driven to interact with an […]

3 Poems: Life on a Wind Farm

Under the Turbines Infants and toddlers cannot speak and even pre-teens may not have the vocabulary to describe the unprecedented symptoms they suffer   Teenagers can tell you more— they are developing a lexicon for suffering They are beginning to see that life is unfair and full of strife   and even if they sometimes […]

We love our phones. Do our phones love us?

Since we’re always using our phones, our reading list this week is all about our phones. Why do we love them? Do they help our social lives or hurt us? How do they affect our children? How do they affect our minds? If you feel like your phone has taken away your sense of place […]

Reading List: Present Shock and Paul Miller, Obama and the Decline of Facebook

We hope you all had a great weekend. This week, you can read the estimates of how many millions of young people have left Facebook since 2011 and read why Obama thinks that is important for healthcare.gov. We’ve also got an anecdotal look at how the next generation perceives the internet and advertising and a […]

The Tech-less School for the Children of Tech Innovators

It’s a school where tech innovators send their kids: The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard. So you’d expect that school to have the best technology resources around, right? But the school’s chief teaching tools […]

Not a joke: Toddlers requiring treatment for iPad addiction

The Telegraph in the UK is reporting that children even as young as four are receiving treatment for addiction to touch-screen devices. The youngest known patient being treated in the UK is a four-year-old girl from the South East. Her parents enrolled her for compulsive behaviour therapy after she became increasingly “distressed and inconsolable” when the […]

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