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Facebook ‘more addictive than sex’
The Times of India: Facebook and email trump sex in terms of sheer irresistibility, researchers say. The German study used smartphone-based surveys to probe the daily desires of 205 men and women, most of whom
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Facebook, Email More Irresistible Than Sex
ABC: You may want to ask your date to turn off his or her phone. A new study suggests Facebook and email trump sex in terms of sheer irresistibility. The German study used smartphone-based surveys
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Facebook More Tantalizing Than Sex
Discovery News: I wish I could resurrect some of the great literary libertines — Baudelaire, Nin, Rimbaud, to name a few — if anything, just to see their puzzled reactions and responses when they read
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Checking Facebook or Twitter is more tempting than sex or cigarettes, says study
The Daily Mail: Checking social networking sites is more tempting than sex and cigarettes, a study has revealed. Researchers at Chicago University’s Booth Business School used BlackBerrys to log reports about participants’ willpower and desires
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Repeated Exposure to Media Images of Traumatic Events May Be Harmful to Mental and Physical Health
From 24-hour cable news to YouTube and Twitter, today’s mass media can turn local disasters into international events within minutes, and research reveals that widespread transmission can have a traumatic impact far beyond the people who are directly exposed.
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Don’t Fear the Cybermind
The New York Times: THE line that separates my mind from the Internet is getting blurry. This has been happening ever since I realized how often it feels as though I know something just because
