Word: habited
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...alert sounds on your e-mail. You can always turn on an "away" message that explains you'll be back in an hour, or whenever. Doing this will make a huge difference in your productivity, and you'll also discover just how much you've fallen out of the habit of uninterrupted concentration. It's pretty frightening...
...obesity does not evoke deprivation, and it's more complicated than a bad habit: it involves food. The old messages won't work, says veteran Democratic operative Michael Berman, whose new memoir, Living Large, chronicles his struggles to come to terms with being fat. "This is different from second-hand smoke, where you can have a program of abstinence. You can give up smoking. You can't give up eating...
...multitasking devices, social scientists and educators are just beginning to assess their impact, but the researchers already have some strong opinions. The mental habit of dividing one's attention into many small slices has significant implications for the way young people learn, reason, socialize, do creative work and understand the world. Although such habits may prepare kids for today's frenzied workplace, many cognitive scientists are positively alarmed by the trend. "Kids that are instant messaging while doing homework, playing games online and watching TV, I predict, aren't going to do well in the long run," says Jordan Grafman...
Many students make brilliant use of media in their work, embedding audio files and video clips in their presentations, but the habit of grazing among many data streams leaves telltale signs in their writing, according to some educators. "The breadth of their knowledge and their ability to find answers has just burgeoned," says Roberts of his students at Stanford, "but my impression is that their ability to write clear, focused and extended narratives has eroded somewhat." Says Koonz: "What I find is paragraphs that make sense internally, but don't necessarily follow a line of argument...
...different approach, one more concerned with the mental rather than physical landscape. Architecture professor and artist Michael Oatman has curated an exhibit about one of the most peculiar manifestations of locals’ imaginations: the practice of making miniatures.While model-making is often known as a cultish or clubby habit, most of these works were produced by individuals in private, and these tiny sculptures are projects which many of the creators had kept hidden until now. The exhibit opened last week at the Cambridge Arts Council, and it profiles art made on an almost preposterously small scale by 11 artists...