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...agree with your report "How to Tune Up Your Brain" [Jan. 23]. One of your articles made the case that communication technology is a key factor in overstimulation and distraction. The faster people can do things, such as reading an e-mail or sending a text message, the shorter their attention span becomes. It seems as if everyone has attention-deficit disorder. Our society is so invested in getting things done fast that we have lost the skill of patiently sitting still and focusing. It's as if people need to be diverted. If there were fewer distractions from pointless...
Much the same happened to military-funded research. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, the successor agency to ARPA) halved its funding of academic information-technology research from 2001 to 2004. "They say that because we're in a war, we need to have a shorter-term focus," laments Patterson. "But during Vietnam," he says, DARPA-funded researchers "laid the technology, the underlying vocabulary, of the Internet. They were doing fundamental, important, long-term research...
...losing to the Bulldogs by 14 in New Haven a week earlier.Brown is an extremely young team, something that has been exacerbated as of late due to tri-captain Luke Ruscoe’s battle with an injured ankle. Without Ruscoe, the Bears are short on talent and even shorter on poise. That’s a disastrous combination when you’re heading into one of the toughest home environments in the Ivy League.Penn (10-6, 2-0) takes this one handily.YALE AT PRINCETONEveryone is waiting for the Tigers (3-12, 1-1) to turn it around. Everyone...
...agree with your report "How To Tune Up Your Brain" [Jan. 16]. One of your articles made the case that communication technology today is a key factor in overstimulation and distraction. The faster people can do things, such as reading an e-mail or sending a text message, the shorter their attention span becomes. It seems as though everyone has attention-deficit disorder. Our society is so invested in getting things done fast that we have lost the skill of patiently sitting still and focusing. It's as if people need to be diverted. If there were fewer distractions from...
...most disturbing, in a way (since a major plot point hangs thereon), is that the report questions the book's claim that Frey spent three months in an Ohio jail after rehab. The site even quotes Frey as having said in an interview, "I was in for a significantly shorter period of time than three months...