Best in the World? What would you say about a product that receives giant public subsidies, costs twice as much or more as its main competition, and ranks 49th in quality worldwide? Most businessmen would say you should be out of business. American leaders declare that product the best in the world. The businessmen may […]
Facebook for Sleep? (12/07/10)
Another Facebook Effect The Facebook effect may bring communities together on a host of different issues, but more people are using Facebook as a bedtime fix. Internet forecasters often like to say this time is different – this time they may be right. Travelodge Tells It You don’t expect hotel companies to put out surveys […]
How the Internet will change your body – Part IV – Making the Net improve your health (12/2/10)
Plan 1 – Make Mobile Computing Truly Mobile Internet providers happily point out that the Net now goes everywhere – with the possible exception of extra-planetary outer space. You can watch narwhals piercing the Arctic ice sheet while you argue with your health insurance provider about your massively increased medical bills. So why not walk […]
Three questions that can save your life
Living Longer and Better Woody Allen (seriously) wants to live forever, but most of us will settle for living healthier and longer. It’s more than possible. Asian American women in Suffolk County, New York have an expected lifespan of 95.6 years. A much larger population of the same folk in Bergen County, New Jersey can […]
How you can take time off and get more done (11/24/10)
New Ways to Increase Productivity Take breaks and get more done – is that possible? More than possible, if you know how the body renews and regenerates itself. In yesterday’s New York Times, Jane Brody profiled Professor Tori Yancey of UCLA. Yancey wants Americans to move, and knows well they don’t like to. Her answer […]