Reading and contemplation
I've seen this in two recent essays. First, David Ulin, in a widely-circulated essay on "The Lost Art of Reading," which draws a link between reading and contemplation. He
Wading into The Shallows
Yesterday I read Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read, and Remember. Frankly, I was prepared to severely dislike it– his
PowerPoint doesn’t make you stupid, and LOLcats doesn’t rewire your brain
Via Duke professor Cathy Davidson, I just came across this L. A. Times piece by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. (They're authors of The Invisible Gorilla. The essay