Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Firstborn children really do excel, reveals groundbreaking study
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/26/firstborn-children-excel-study-reveals
Saturday, April 26, 2014
We may not go to church, but we still need the rituals of Christianity
People have always needed a place to go to give solace. And when my sister died, that place was a church
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/25/church-rituals-christianity-uk
Friday, April 25, 2014
Saturday, April 19, 2014
The wide awake club: fighting insomni
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/apr/19/tips-to-combat-insomnia
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Capitalism simply isn't working and here are the reasons why
Capitalism simply isn't working and here are the reasons why Economist Thomas Piketty's message is bleak: the gap between rich and poor threatens to destroy us
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/12/capitalism-isnt-working-thomas-piketty
Monday, March 31, 2014
Salivary 'carb breakdown' gene linked to obesity, study shows
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/30/salivary-carb-breakdown-gene-obesity-study
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
Friday, March 14, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Evgeny Morozov: Two Cheers for Boredom : The New Yorker
"mediated boredom - doesn't produce time to think; it just produces a craving for more information in order to suppress it."
Evgeny Morozov: Two Cheers for Boredom : The New Yorker
extract :
was partly to blame. The glow of street advertising hijacked people’s
spirits with the promise of cheap liquor and cigarettes, while movie
theatres created the illusion of “a life that belongs to no one and
exhausts everyone.” Radio listeners were in a state of “permanent
receptivity, constantly pregnant with London, the Eiffel Tower, and
Berlin,” their souls “badgered by the news hounds” so that “soon no one
can tell anymore who is the hunter and who is the hunted.” The
disorienting experience, Kracauer complained, is like “one of those
dreams provoked by an empty stomach”: . . .
Evgeny Morozov: Two Cheers for Boredom : The New Yorker
extract :
On November 16,
1924, Siegfried Kracauer, a luminary in the literary world of the
Weimar Republic, published a feisty essay in the Frankfurter Zeitung.
Trained as an architect, Kracauer was an acute observer of modernity
and its impact on life in the city. He followed in the footsteps of his
onetime teacher Georg Simmel, the sociologist whose 1903 essay “The
Metropolis and Mental Life” argued that overstimulated urban dwellers
were prone to develop a “blasé attitude,” a coping mechanism that
blunted their ability to react to new sensations. Kracauer’s concerns
went beyond that. “People today who still have time for boredom and yet
are not bored are certainly just as boring as those who never get around
to being bored,” he wrote in the Zeitung. The bourgeoisie “are
pushed deeper and deeper into the hustle and bustle until eventually
they no longer know where their head is.”
Life in the modern city, with its cheap and ubiquitous entertainment,1924, Siegfried Kracauer, a luminary in the literary world of the
Weimar Republic, published a feisty essay in the Frankfurter Zeitung.
Trained as an architect, Kracauer was an acute observer of modernity
and its impact on life in the city. He followed in the footsteps of his
onetime teacher Georg Simmel, the sociologist whose 1903 essay “The
Metropolis and Mental Life” argued that overstimulated urban dwellers
were prone to develop a “blasé attitude,” a coping mechanism that
blunted their ability to react to new sensations. Kracauer’s concerns
went beyond that. “People today who still have time for boredom and yet
are not bored are certainly just as boring as those who never get around
to being bored,” he wrote in the Zeitung. The bourgeoisie “are
pushed deeper and deeper into the hustle and bustle until eventually
they no longer know where their head is.”
was partly to blame. The glow of street advertising hijacked people’s
spirits with the promise of cheap liquor and cigarettes, while movie
theatres created the illusion of “a life that belongs to no one and
exhausts everyone.” Radio listeners were in a state of “permanent
receptivity, constantly pregnant with London, the Eiffel Tower, and
Berlin,” their souls “badgered by the news hounds” so that “soon no one
can tell anymore who is the hunter and who is the hunted.” The
disorienting experience, Kracauer complained, is like “one of those
dreams provoked by an empty stomach”: . . .
Thursday, February 20, 2014
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
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