Author Nicholas Carr in conversation with Google’s Peter Norvig.
Open Culture informs about this video which has been synched with Philip Zimbardo’s lecture on Time Paradox. Philip Zimbardo is a longtime Stanford psychology professor and well known for the famous Stanford Prison Experiment conducted in 1971. His book The Time Paradox(2008) makes the intriguing case that each of us has a unique time personality. [...]
Too much watching of television means being a couch potato, but now there’s a new syndrome "tweet potato" or "face bookato". Dr Aric Sigman says that high usage of social media can lead to an upset in our body chemistry through decreased face-to-face contact. The doctor believes that instead of these services supplementing our communication, [...]
From IQ2 debate on Fora TV : The pursuit of happiness is one of the unalienable rights enshrined in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. But is our relentless striving to feel good no matter what actually making us miserable? Would we be better to accept that life comes with good times and bad, and make [...]
A latest BCS report suggests that access to IT can make you happier. It primarily covers three areas: Effect of IT on Life Satisfaction, Individual Level Effect of ICT on Sense of Freedom and Control, Individual Level Effect of IT on Life Satisfaction with various variable/IT interaction terms From the press release: A new global [...]
A polymath is a person whose knowledge is not restricted to one subject area. In less formal terms, a polymath (or polymathic person) may simply refer to someone who is very knowledgeable. Most ancient scientists were polymaths by today’s standards. Leonardo da Vinci is regarded as an archetypal "Renaissance Man" and is one of the [...]
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