http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/rebooting-your-memory-20131031-2whyq.html This article provides a reasonable overview of different ideas about what happens to memory when we outsource the storage of detail info (ie we don’t store things in our memory if we can look them up on google)
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Special Gen Y “GYPSYs”
From the Huffington Post on Gen Ys and why they’re unhappy (and delusional!)
Monday Morning Reading
Two articles I’ve come across this morning that others might find interesting – Granted, they’re not the greatest news-source sites! Just some interesting reading. Aly, this one might be of interest to you. Especially after our discussion last week about…
Google faces
Googling for faces in maps of the earth (via Stephen Downes) The way we perceive our environment is a complex procedure. By the help of our vision we are able to recognize friends within a huge crowd, approximate the speed…
OkTrends – data from an online dating site
OkTrends. (Data from the OKCupid online dating site) I’m just browsing through my old stuff on another site and came across this site – it has some interesting data on the way people project themselves online. It’s different from Facebook…