the internet is ruining our brain

"Web dead head (yes, I made that up) is a growing concern for today’s connected generation, which collectively spends 35 billion hours on the Internet every month.

But we’re not just talking one online shopping experience at a time. Often, we have four tabs open, cycling between emails and shopping, tweeting and word processing. Such multi-tasking actually raises stress levels and lowers creative thinking overall, according to the research compiled by ForensicPsychology.net.

Turns out, multi-tasking online doesn’t positively exercise our brains or mental state.

Heavy Internet users are 2.5 times more likely to be depressed.

And web addiction reduces the white matter in our brains, basically the transmittejrs responsible for our memory and sensory abilities."

(full data in Mashable)

pass time

numa sociedade em que ninguém "tem tempo" para nada, sobretudo nada que implique ter iniciativa e/ou estar com "pessoas "reais" (amigos?), é mais que irónico (para além de assustador), o quanto as pessoas usam a internet para, simplesmente, queimar tempo.

a internet é, assim, o grande concorrente de opções de lazer como o cinema, cafés, bares, teatro et cetera.

sinal de uma crise económica...ou de uma crise social?

(gráfico encontrado aqui enquanto "fazia tempo" antes de um treino)

happy holidays

binary code says it best.

(in Mashable)

charity: water

por vezes, são as ideias mais simples que se tornam mais eficazes.

The story of charity: water - The 2009 September Campaign Trailer from charity: water on Vimeo.

"In the West we take clean water for granted, but for 1.1 billion people across the developing world, the idea of easy access to treated water goes beyond a luxury concept." (in Mashable)