Andrew McCluskey

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the... See more

just 12 hours of working memory training at age seven made children in Germany 16 percentage points more likely to enter the elite academic track .

BRIAN ENO

So what you see when you watch someone surfing is they take control momentarily, to situate themselves on a wave, and then they surrender. They’re carried along by it, and then they take control again, and then they surrender. I think that’s a very good analogy of what we do throughout our lives, actually. We’re constantly moving between... See more

Are we going to keep compromising ourselves to cater for an ever-decreasing attention span?