One too many chips
Continuous partial attention makes it too easy to snack. Instead of waiting for the main meal, we fritter our hunger away on too many chips...
Tag: News
A medium and its message
The medium is the format in which something works. The selection of media predetermines how content gets disseminated and shared. The Internet is a mass...
Angels with dirty faces
If you want to be more optimistic, close your Twitter account. Bad news is addicting. But don’t completely bury your head in the sand. No...
Free the animals 🦁🐘🦓
The design for Animal crackers just got an update. Due to mounting pressure from animal rights group PETA, Nabisco removed the cages from its iconic...
Coping with the cesspool of news
There’s a certain smugness people get in ignoring the news. Congratulations, you have no idea what’s going on! But I like to stay informed. I’d...
“Real journalism matters”
The medium is the message. And while some of those media messages may stick, most lack substance. Look closely. “Real journalism matters.” Pics via Columbia Journalism...
The world’s most expensive coffee is 💩☕
The world’s most expensive coffee (aka brown gold) is shit, literally. In other strange coffee news, scientists made a broccoli powder you can dump into...
U.K. schools dismiss the traditional clock face
The U.K. is eliminating analog clocks from student classrooms because kids can’t read them. Says one professor from the Times Educational Supplement newspaper: “It is...
Central Park to go car-free this summer
New York City’s mayor Bill De Blasio announced today that Central Park will be car-free starting this June. The artwork says it all: humans are...
Blame the humans, not the bots, for retweeting false news
According to research done by data scientists at MIT, it is humans, not bots, which disseminate false news. The study began with the 2013 Boston...
Coping with the maelstrom of news
It’s hard enough to cultivate awareness. We drown in our own ineptitude to sort and curate the noise. Spiraling out of control, we gravitate to...