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Steven Johnson is a very intelligent man who frittered away much of his youth on TV, movies and video games. You kids out there would be wise to do the same. In Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (Riverhead Books; 238 pages), the social critic and technologist (Mind Wide Open) makes a thought-provoking argument that today's allegedly vacuous media are, well, thought provoking...
...Don’t act like your smarter than everyone else while using ubsurd malapropisms, remember that everyone here got excepted to Harvard, so no need to be supercillious about it,” wrote D-Val, who later posted spelling corrections...
...played much smarter as a team,” Wannop said. “We possessed the ball smarter in offense and we had a really good system in place in terms of defense...
...What I found so funny and interesting was that the very first definition [in Merriam-Webster's] is "causing a sharp stinging." What better description of children! They really tax you, push you to grow mentally. I felt smarter primarily because I could feel myself learning all kinds of new things at what seemed to me like an unprecedented rate. I was learning, and still am learning lessons every day about what we think of as "emotional intelligence"--how to understand and manage one's own and others' feelings. And I didn't get thrown so much by distractions, because...
...women realize the potential to become smarter with motherhood...