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ANXIETY AND THE SMARTPHONE

IT’S RARE THAT AAAS Science magazine and London Review of Books share substantial overlap. However, Science Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp’s editorial “Unsettled Science on Social Media,” Science, June 19, 2024, … Continue reading

July 7, 2024 · Leave a comment

FOUR THINGS LOGICIANS DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW!

WELL, IT ISN’T that they don’t want you to know. (And, by the way, do you too find these “don’t want you to know” headlines a bit ludicrous?) Rather, it’s … Continue reading

July 16, 2016 · Leave a comment

ARE YOU UNHAPPY? HERE’S NOT WHY, BUT HOW

A RECENT item making the rounds identifies the happiest and unhappiest cities in America. See, for example, http://goo.gl/IQPXNc and http://goo.gl/rskKG2. Superficially, it sounds like one of those social-network personality games: “Which … Continue reading

July 26, 2014 · Leave a comment