An app that encourages friends to put down their phones
For those of you who were wagering on the results of the Singapore Computer Society's Splash award, wonder no more: the top prize has gone to Apple Tree,
Chinese article about The Distraction Addiction
If you read Chinese, this article about The Distraction Addiction might interest you. Me, I just look at the pictures.
Speaking at Convergence 2014
I'm going up to Edmonton, Canada to do a keynote at Convergence 2014, a conference on educational technology. I hadn't written the book with this audience in mind,
Athletes, academic performance, and the stereotype threat
A couple months ago Annie Murphy Paul wrote about new research demonstrating that the “stereotype threat”— the negative effect that stereotypes about low academic performance can have on
“electrical illumination revolutionised the night and, in turn, sleep”
A nice piece in Aeon by Scottish writer Karen Emslie about segmented sleep, featuring the (pioneering and incredibly innovative) work of Virginia Tech historian A. Roger Ekirch, and why it
Science says parents with smartphones are more likely to let their children fall into snake pits
Yale economist Craig Palsson has a new article [pdf] asking whether the growing use of smartphones by parents of young children is responsible for the increased rate of
Announcing REST: WHY WORKING LESS GETS MORE DONE
Incredibly, Jonah Lehrer is only the second most unlikely person to have scored a book deal this past week. During my trip to the East Coast last week,
Talking about contemplative computing in Princeton and New Haven
Last week I spent several days on the road, on a whirlwind trip to the East Coast to talk about contemplative computing and The Distraction Addiction. It was
“We’re teaching our players: Sleep is a weapon”
The Globe and Mail has an article about how Canadian hockey and American football teams, like the San Francisco Giants, have turned to sleep experts to help their
“panic-merchants worry that online social networks will destroy society”
Nice turn of phrase from Oliver Burkeman.