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2013

3 posts

  1. Digital Cameras Are Messing With Your Memory

    Digital Cameras Are Messing With Your Memory New research finds a photo-taking-impairment effect: when people take a picture they forget the moment. This is a very interesting article, and certainly worth reading if you are a snap happy digital camera fiend. In a paper set for publication in Psychological Science, Henkel calls her finding the “photo-taking-impairment effect.” When…

  2. Hey, FastCoExist, Paying for it, it’s not being shared

    This kind of stuff pisses me off: It’s Time For The Sharing Economy To Become The Sharing Society Hey FastCoExist: when you pay for a good or service, it’s not sharing, its buying. You throw around the term “sharing economy” to denote anything that is not clearly the historic, formal economy we have known for decades…

  3. Leveraging art and artists for social change

    I wrote this article, Leveraging art and artists for social change for the Resource Media blog, but I am copying it here for you, dear reader. In October I traveled to Austin, Texas for SXSWEco expecting to learn about plenty of green and clean technology, policies and activist campaigns to advance sustainability in the face…