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Non-Organic vs Organic

Non-Organic vs Organic

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BP Irony

BP Irony

Do not leave pumps unattended. You are responsible for spills.

Posters for all 32 World Cup nations

Brazil
USA
Switzerland
Spain
South Africa

Slovenia

Nigeria
South Korea
Uruguay
Paraguay
New Zealand
Slovakia
Argentina
Greece
Mexico

Portugal

Italy

Germany

France

England
Holland
Denmark
Cameroon
Ghana
Japan
Honduras
Serbia
Chile
Australia
Cotte di Voire
Algeria
North Korea

The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains

The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains

So many great sections to quote from this article. Below are a few that stood out.

The depth of our intelligence hinges on our ability to transfer information from working memory, the scratch pad of consciousness, to long-term memory, the mind’s filing system.

Imagine filling a bathtub with a thimble; that’s the challenge involved in moving information from working memory into long-term memory.

The problem is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of thought. Once a means to an end, a way to identify information for further study, it’s becoming an end in itself—our preferred method of both learning and analysis. Dazzled by the Net’s treasures, we are blind to the damage we may be doing to our intellectual lives and even our culture.

What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: We are evolving from cultivators of personal knowledge into hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest. In the process, we seem fated to sacrifice much of what makes our minds so interesting.

Read the whole article.