The United States, as you know, was founded as a republic, not simply as a democracy. The distinction has been lost over the past few decades, but it is an important one. The believers in a democracy have unlimited faith in the character and judgment of the...

via thenextweb.com Absolutely. As far as I am concerned, my iPad (#1) is my reading platform, for fiction, textbooks, newspapers, magazines, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, email, and anything else i'm sent digitally. It's been years since i read the New York Times on...

Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Some newsrooms are already beginning to retool their staffs and systems to prepare for a future in which data becomes...

http://nyti.ms/fxioH4 There is great article in the NYTimes this morning about a conference on thinking--or more appropriately, on patterns of thought that may obscure or illuminate our understanding of our world. The Einstellung Effect, for example, addresses how...

via nytimes.com the fine art of skimming is being tested by the New York Times online: http://www.nytimes.com/skimmer/ This makes the newspaper look a lot more like its iPad app or Times Reader, which is available by subscription online. although you can customize...

And it always snows more at home than in the city. And now that it is the end of March, a lot of white stuff gives me a quite different feeling than it did in December. No more "isn't it beautiful!". No more "winter wonderland" exclamations either. It's not that we're...

This is a line from Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times in an article in the newspaper's magazine this Sunday morning. He's talking about those of us who study media, from the perspective of individuals, media routines, media organizations, social institutions...

via scientificamerican.com our brains constantly amaze me. we used to think the external world had little influence on the brain, short of a catastrophe, and that news would definitely be bad. now we know that talk therapy changes the brain and that (another new...

This is how i've felt all winter. Can't even think about wearing a swimsuit. The curse of long upstate new york winters!