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Overexposed? Camera Phones Could Be Washing Out Our Memories
NPR: Los Angeles blogger Rebecca Woolf uses her blog, Girl’s Gone Child, as a window into her family’s life. Naturally, it includes oodles of pictures of her four children. She says she’s probably taken tens of thousands
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Speed-Reading Reborn for Smartphones, Smartwatches
Scientific American: Speed-reading is either a productivity enhancer or a gimmick that lets people gobble up content without really understanding or retaining what they’ve read. This debate—dating back to the late 1950s—resurfaced recently when Samsung
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Throwback Thursday: The Psychology Behind its Success
CNN: FORTUNE — I archive dive almost every Thursday, searching for the perfect photograph: a shot from one of college’s many Ugly Sweater parties; my best friend and I, 20 pounds lighter, grinning at prom
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Most Fitness Apps Don’t Use Proven Motivational Techniques
NPR: If you downloaded a fitness app and didn’t become a workout ninja, it may be that the app lacked the scientifically tested motivational techniques that would help get you off the couch. Instead, most
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The Psychological Toll of the Smartphone
Psychological research confirms that smartphones are indeed creating a new kind of stress for people at home, at work, and in social settings.
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Cognitive Motor Skills Start to Fall Before Age 25
Today’s college graduates may enter the workforce with a lot of naiveté about business protocol and negotiation skills, but their technical prowess is arguably unprecedented. These are individuals who grew up with the Internet and
