Another post on the neuroscience of walking
I wrote about this research a few months ago, but Salon has an article on some really interesting research done in Edinburgh on the effects of walking on
Disconnected days in New York
Last week, I took a few days off and took my son to New York City. (I had a workshop in DC, and needed to meet my publisher
Texting while walking, coming through!
Via Gizmodo, this nice piece of improv / tech commentary:
Brain fatigue and walks in Edinburgh
One of my favorite places in the world is Edinburgh. I first went there in graduate school, and spend several days at the Royal Observatory, and several nights
Restoration, thinking paths and obliquity
Tony Schwartz has a piece in the New York Times about rest and productivity. His big point is a classic example of obliquity: that while we assume that
“there was no alternative to constant, ubiquitous engagement”
Kill. Me. Now: During a panel I moderated with well-known blogger and tech expert Robert Scoble, he said there was no alternative to constant, ubiquitous engagement and held
“The problem is, too many writers today are afraid to be still”
Or so Silas House argues in a recent essay, "The Art of Being Still:" I’m not talking about the kind of stillness that involves locking yourself in a
Philadelphia, unfortunately, will NOT have a sidewalk e-lane for textestrians
This is the lede buried in an AP article about distracted walking (something I wrote about last week): As an April Fool's Day joke with a serious message,
Texting while walking is a bad idea
The other day my wife showed me a video of a woman who falls into a fountain at a mall because she's distracted by texting. This isn't the
A short film about the Sandwalk
I've recently had a mild obsession with the Sandwalk, the path that Charles Darwin laid out on his estate, Down House, and which he walked for nearly forty