My book review in The Saturday Paper on Johann Hari’s book, Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention: We’re all drowning in distraction. “It felt like our civilisation had been covered with itching powder,” writes British journalist Johann Hari near the beginning of this insightful, global investigation, “and we spent our time twitching and twerking…
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Fast fingers and good manners
China’s mobile phone users sent 429 billion text messages in 2006, the equivalent of 967 messages per user. In other China news…
God will be rapt
Priorities, priorities: Israeli scientists said on Tuesday they have created the world’s smallest Bible, fitting a Hebrew-language version of the holy book on a gold-coated silicon chip smaller than a pinhead. Researchers from Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology, were able to pack the 308,428-word Hebrew Bible – known to most as the Old Testament –…