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The New Facebook Groups: A Privacy Risk
Facebook launched a new feature called Groups. On its face, it offers a way to limit who you share information with. In an interview posted on Cnet, Mark Zukerberg said, There are a lot of things you want to share … Read more
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Facebook Tells Everyone Where You Are
Facebook rolled out the Places feature, which publishes where you are physically located at the time of your update. You tell Facebook where you are, and it publishes it. Facebook, it its infinite (advertiser-friendly) wisdom, has assumed you want this … Read more
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Staying Electronically Connected Taxes the Brain
Switching your attention between different tasks, such driving and looking at your phone, is hard for the brain. And forget the idea of multitasking, human brains can only process one stream of information at a time. Switching between streams makes … Read more
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Outsider shows us what social creatures we are
An NPR story takes a tender look through the eyes of Lisa Daxter, an adult with autism. Lisa, taking a role much like an anthropologist from Mars, points out just how social we “neurotypicals” are. We clump together into social … Read more
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Younger Kids Get ADHD Lable More Often
NPR reports two studies (here and here) showing that younger kids in a classroom are more often (60% of the cases) diagnosed with ADHD when compared to their older classmates. The researchers looked at birth dates and school cut off … Read more
Inexpensive Drug Testing Kits
Gary Stanoff, MFT, referred me to a website that offers drug testing kits and a breathalyzer for less cost than at local drug stores.
Back from vacation
I’ve been back for a week. It was a wonderful time away, and just long enough. Several times during the last two days, I caught myself longing to get back to work; I started to thing about clients and what … Read more
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Be Creative! Or Not.
The suggestion to be creative, much like the command, “Be spontaneous,” just kills the process. A sidebar in this week’s Newsweek, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman point out Mark Runco’s research that a general instruction to “be creative” dries up … Read more
Video Game Promotes Happiness
SuperMe is a new, on-line collection of video games designed, in the words of Alice Taylor, commissioning editor for UK’s Channel 4, “It’s about resilience: how to feel good when life chucks you lemons. How to be better at thinking … Read more
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Study links TV to ADD, again.
NPR is reporting another study linking watching TV and playing video games to difficulty in paying attention in school. Apart from the usual critique that correlation is not sufficient to claim causation, this study does not add much to parenting … Read more
