martphone use is increasingly connected with alterations in the physical structure of teens’ prefrontal cortices - Link
Who did the posting will soon matter more than what was posted - Link
I suggest it is because we no longer have the foggiest idea what human life is about. Indeed, there is a sense in which we no longer live in a world at all, but exist in a simulacrum of our own making. - Link
We’re witnessing the birth of a post-entertainment culture. The fastest growing sector of the culture economy is distraction. - Link
Tom Hanks gives the Oxford Union an acting lesson - Podcast
Today only 55 percent of the world’s crop calories feed people directly; the rest are fed to livestock (about 36 percent) or turned into biofuels and industrial products (roughly 9 percent). - Link
Highly repetitive regions of junk DNA may be the key to a newly discovered mechanism for gene regulation. - Link
‘Schindler’s List’: An Oral History of a Masterpiece - Link
Couples’ personalities can become more similar over time—but the causes are still enigmatic. - Link
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