March 2012
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Look, okay, I don’t want to come across as Mr. Old Man here, but the whole Cinnamon Challenge thing has got to be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard of massive amounts of kids doing and posting online. At least the stupid stuff we did when we were kids had the potential of getting you high (I can’t be the only one who tried smoking oregano, right?) and we didn’t...
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“If Garp could have been granted one vast and naive wish, it would have been that...”
– John Irving, The World According to Garp
Novels Good for Brains, says the New York Times →
“Amid the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile. But new support for the value of fiction is arriving from an unexpected quarter: neuroscience.
Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters. Stories, this...
