Word: channelling
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...never acted before. He shot it (himself, under the name Peter Andrews) in three weeks with digital cameras. And if you're wondering where you can find Bubble, the answer is kind of everywhere: on Jan. 27 in the Landmark theater chain, on the HDNet Movies cable-TV channel and on Jan. 31 on DVD. It's the first film with a three-media premiere...
During a training session at Colorado's Snowmass Mountain, near Aspen last week, a group of élite snowboarders who call themselves the Collection swooshed, spun and flipped over a curved channel, or half-pipe, changing the way their sport is played...
What sort of toll is all this disruption and mental channel switching taking on our ability to think clearly, work effectively and function as healthy human beings? Do the devices that make it possible to do so many things at once truly raise our productivity or merely help us spin our wheels faster? Over the past five years, psychologists, efficiency experts and information-technology researchers have begun to explore those questions in detail. They have begun to calculate the pluses, the minuses and the economic costs of the interrupted life--in dollars, productivity and dysfunction. More important, they're exploring...
Aynsley Smith, director of the sports-medicine research center at the Mayo Clinic, gives her athletes a more tangible system of thought swapping. "I tell them that self-talk exists on three channels: positive, negative and escape. You try to be on the positive channel as much as you can while you're training or competing, but when the negative thoughts start coming, it's the speed of the transition that counts. I give them a clicker pen and tell them to just click over from the negative to the positive channel." If the anxiety doesn't go away, says...
...year comparisons. Martin wrote in an e-mail that “in 2001 we [HUDS] went online with surveystudents.com, and have been using that system ever since—same questions, just rotating open-ended items.” In addition, students have had a more consistent channel of communication with HUDS since the creation of the HUDS Student Advisory Committee last year, which Snyder said will work with dining services “to develop new recipes, programs and ideas, as well as questions for future surveys.” Davis said that the committee seeks to convert...