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Please, Put Down Your Phone And Look Up

Please, Put Down Your Phone And Look Up

Natasha Phillips Natasha Phillips
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Social networks claim to bring us closer together, but I can’t help thinking they’re really just pulling us apart.

7 Ways To Increase Your Attention Span (Because We’re Apparently Down To 8 Seconds 😱)

7 Ways To Increase Your Attention Span (Because We’re Apparently Down To 8 Seconds 😱)

Kovie Biakolo Kovie Biakolo
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“Can you can pay attention longer than a goldfish?”

My Love Affair With Reality TV

My Love Affair With Reality TV

Liz Colville Liz Colville
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It’s hard for me to believe that in another era, people might have read books to relax. Now, to relax, I need — or at least I tell myself I need — to watch the least mentally challenging, least difficult, least gritty, least substantive television program available.

I Am The Problem

I Am The Problem

Alex Moschina Alex Moschina
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After dinner, I’ll watch a documentary about how wasteful our society is and how we could feed every starving person in Haiti with the food we throw out each year. The whole time, I’ll be thinking of that Portlandia sketch about dumpster divers and the Haitians will seem like they’re on another planet, far beyond my reach.

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