The founders of the Swedish company My Paper recently made us an offer we couldn’t refuse. They would reproduce part of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko — for free — to showcase their amazing new digital paper technology.We accepted, of course. (Free is our second-favorite four-letter word.) And the results are pretty spectacular. You can now read the first 61 […]
First The Times tells us that being bored pumps up our cognitive muscles. In fact, say two scientists quoted in the story, it’s time for boredom to “be recognized as a legitimate human emotion that can be central to learning and creativity.”Now Scientific American parachutes in to say that sleep is similarly essential for memory and other
The audiobook of A Whole New Mind is — finally! — available. You can find it on Audible at this link — or on iTunes by searching “whole new mind unabridged”.
Like most of you, I care deeply about my personal productivity. And like many of you, I’m always disappointed on that dimension of my life.One of my problems, verified by data from Rescue Time, is that I’m spending too much time on email, especially during the morning hours when I’m most productive.So this week, I’m trying
The Let’s Talk Health Care blog pointed me to this NY Times story about Xtreme Aging, a program “designed to simulate the diminished abilities associated with old age.”As the Times‘s John Leland explains, participants don distorting glasses to cloud their vision. They stuff cotton balls in their ears to dampen their hearing and in their nose to limit their
According to Brad Stone’s essay in today’s NY Times, this is the term academics use to describe the inaccessibility of paper-based public records.”Once upon a time,” Stone writes, “people in search of [criminal records] had to hire private investigators to navigate byzantine courthouses and rudimentary filing or computer systems, and to deal with often grim-faced legal clerks.
Forgive the self-indulgence, but this weekend turns out to be an opportune moment for a quick update on the bestseller lists.A Whole New Mind is #20 on Sunday’s NY Times non-fiction list (marking its 29th consecutive week in the top 25.) It’s also #6 on the new NY Times business list (down from #5 last month, but in its 10th
Daily newspaper sales in the US: 50 million copiesDaily newspaper sales in China: 107 million copies(Source: The Economist, 7/26/08)
The Census Bureau reported today that in 2006 the U.S. had more than 20.7 million “non-employer businesses” — that is, businesses without paid employees. These small enterprises earned revenue totaling nearly $1 trillion.
