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Given all the disruption, all the crowding of bosses who can track us down anywhere, anytime, the fears that our gadgets may make us ruder and dumber and more easily distracted, it's a natural temptation to abandon technology, or at least vacation from it occasionally. First-time--and best-selling--author Timothy Ferriss has become a Silicon Valley darling by pushing his low-information diet as the secret to achieving The 4-Hour Workweek, which among other things involves checking e-mail no more than twice a day. Maybe it's worth taking the test: Do our devices really...
...findings, published online this month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may help explain why many children diagnosed with ADHD eventually grow out of it, as their brains slowly become more similar to those of their peers. The study will continue to track hundreds of adolescents to see if any of the ADHD kids ever fully catch up. More research is also needed to determine why half the kids with the disorder still have it as adults...
...conducting exhaustive trials and experiments in the Crimson Arts Music Investigation Laboratory (CAMIL). The following are excerpts from their lab reports. SCRABBLE The subjects competed against each other while playing the popular board game and listening to “45:33.” Ruben L. Davis: At track time 17:13, made the word “Quetzals,” earning an astounding 374 points in one turn. Collapsed thereafter. Andrew F. Nunnelly: Highest scoring words: “Weeds,” “Rack.” Achieved an embarrassing final score...
...slick mainstream productions and display a cavalier attitude. This pimples-and-all approach shows the boys in their street clothes, with bad haircuts and acne in full view. It also features some serious musicianship. The group is shown primarily in the studio as they set up and record the track, with cuts to walks in the park and visits to the pub. To underscore the video’s intended rough edges, the band uses a less polished version of the song than appears on the album. The video is not destined for MTV, as it effectively thumbs its nose...
...Tyrannosaurus Hives” featured only five songs over the three-minute mark between them, “The Black and White Album” has 10 of them. The Hives simply don’t use that extra time well; almost every track overstays its welcome. “Well All Right!” and “You Dress Up for Armageddon” contain awkward bridges that ruin potentially decent rockers. The instrumental “A Stroll Through Hive Manor Corridors” is stuffed right in the middle of the album, seemingly...