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[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the “widespread and sophisticated development of visual-spatial skills.” We can, for example, rotate objects in our minds better than we used to be able to. But our... See more
Nicholas Carr • The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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True Originality Comes From Disorder, Not Efficiency
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there have often been references to gendered differences in socialization, speculating that a greater emphasis on social niceties – on compliance and conformity – produced the ‘quieter’ form of autism allegedly more characteristic of autistic females. So much quieter, indeed, that it often fails to register as autism at all.
Gina Rippon • Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
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Examining communication models, the text critiques mechanical sender-receiver paradigms, emphasizing human language's intersubjective, rhythmic, and performative nature, highlighting oral versus literate cultures' differences and the role of speech entrainment in building community.
LinkDeveloping taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current trends or the tastes of your peers. Because while having taste is cool, taste itself reflects a certain type of uncool earnestness – a commitment to one’s own obsessions and quirks.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding