digital thinking

Speed: Do Video Games Destroy Your Brain Cells?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on February 13, 2008 - 12:43am.
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What does this fear of things going too fast really mean? What is the speed of thought, the speed of an epiphany?  Is a video game really faster? So fast that it rots your brain?

Eames Elliptical Table

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on January 28, 2008 - 9:54am.
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My 7 1/2 foot long Eames Elliptical Table, popularly known as the Surfboard Table, is filling up with (color-coded) ideas, writing, drafts of chapters . . . here's an ongoing syllabus of some of my favorite reading on the fine art of knowing and mini-reviews of books by Hawkins, Nisbett, and Wolf.