November 1, 2011 2:58 pm / no comments
Although you know your teenager takes some chances, it can be a shock to hear about them. by David Dobbs One fine May morning not long ago my oldest son, 17 at the time, phoned to tell me that he had just spent a couple hours at the state police barracks. Apparently he had been [...]
October 24, 2011 3:03 pm / no comments
by David Dobbs Boing-Boing has a snip from Nick Bilton’s I Live in the Future and Here’s How it Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain are Being Creatively Disrupted, which is an incredibly long title for what sounds like a fun book. The excerpt looks at a study that suggests surgeons who play video games do [...]