Someone always asks me: How much time should I spend in front of a screen? When should I pull back and take a break? Checking in with your feelings creates a sensibility that allows the body and mind to come through in everything we do.
Julia Moulden | Posted 12.04.2009 | Living
Right now in the developed world, people 80 and over are the fastest growing population group. By 2025, there will be 1.2 billion people over 60 worldwide, the "silver tsunami".
Alan Kaufman | Posted 12.04.2009 | Books
The hi-tech campaign to relocate books to Google and replace books with Kindles is, in its essence, a deportation of the literary culture to a kind of easily monitored concentration camp of ideas.
Dr. Hendrie Weisinger | Posted 12.03.2009 | Technology
uTourX is a hot new iPhone application that college bound students and their parents will love -- college tours packed with "insider" information that familiarize students with the schools they wish to attend.
Posted 12.03.2009 | Technology
Google announced plans for Google Public DNS today, a new service that will provide consumers with a DNS service provider alternative. DNS, or Domain...
Lisa Haisha | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living
Think about a recent trip you took. Did you come home with the contact information of new friends? Did you create memories that go beyond places you visited?
Julie Spira | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living
Sending a text message can be a fun, flirty way to communicate with partners. However, depending on the nature of your relationship, texting can also damage your relationship.
Soren Gordhamer | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living
I enjoy my gadgets as much as the next person, but watching how much cell phones are impacting people's lives, I cannot help but wonder, "Do we own our gadgets or have they begun to own us?"
nydailynews.com | By Simone Weichselbaum | Posted 11.29.2009 | New York
The city's street gangs are becoming tweet gangs. Manhattan's young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the ...
The New Yorker | Keith Lubeley | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books
In 2009, the average office worker will spend forty-one per cent of her day reading and responding to e-mails. Such grim statistics abound in John Fre...
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
If one believes that the prevention of suffering may sometimes justify the withdrawal or withholding of care, then the very fact that Houben was conscious for twenty-three years might call more convincingly for such action.
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 12.05.2009 | Technology
The onslaught of new technologies -- cell phones, video games, social networking sites, the Wikipediazation of information, the reach of YouTube and Skype, you name it -- have ushered a seismic shift in education: how our kids learn, how our teachers teach, how curriculum is shaped and presented, how individual students, powered by technology, process and experience what they're learning.
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.23.2009 | Technology
Here's the biggest challenge of our hyper-kinetic, always-connected, tech-powered daily lives: Unplugging.
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology
Peer-to-peer software, by itself, did not cause the confidential Congressional document to be leaked to the press. Certainly people are not perfect and some data breaches will still occur even with better policies and technology.
Michael Ashley | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books
You don't know the right people and traditional publishers don't believe your book will ever sell. Fortunately for you, the publishing industry is in transition and you might have a chance.
2morrowknight | Posted 11.20.2009 | Technology
As we close out another year, it's natural to wonder what innovations people will talk about in the coming year. One name buzzing in circles is Ameeda Chowdhury, the visionary CEO of Snazl.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
Already, thousands of our readers have signed a letter and contacted the White House urging a new way forward in Afghanistan. I encourage you to read it and to endorse this message if you have not done so already.
nytimes.com | Wyatt Mason | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Shortly after my girlfriend and I decided to rent a New Hampshire summer house together in 2007, we made a vexing discovery: Internet access wasn't go...
Nicholas Weinstock | Posted 11.18.2009 | Technology
1. ME: ... So the three dragons crept deeper into the terrifying castle. They shivered with fear. A knight could be lurking around any corner. ...
AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology
SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemot...
hosted.ap.org | Lauran Neergaard | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
The Alzheimer's Association is adapting technology developed for monitoring prisoners to let caregivers track where their loved ones drive or walk....
Justin R. Rattner | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology
Despite one of the deepest recessions in history, Americans have an undiminished faith in technology and innovation as the primary engines of economic growth.
Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact
In a modern update of the telethon fundraiser so often seen on TV stations like PBS, two Portland technology bloggers will be livestreaming for 30 hou...
Theodore Bergquist | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment
The online retail marketplace for video games was recently shaken by the fact that the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 comes included with third-party technology that includes a virtual storefront.
Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
Job seekers take heed, the best cities to find work may be in Texas. The Milken Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank, released its annual Best...
Linda Stone | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living