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Even more fundamentally, it is time to consider what types of attention we aspire to and why. What psychologists sometimes call unifocal attention (what we would think of focused rather than diffused attention) is only one way to attend, and it’s not always the most useful – as Chris Chabris and Dan Simons showed in…

Cornélien est le choix du sapin. Entre les amoureux de la tradition et les opposants au « tout-consommable, tout-jetable », la hache de guerre est déterrée. Au milieu, les producteurs de sapins s’efforcent de verdir leur image, tandis que les bricoleurs du dimanche inventent de nouvelles façons d’accueillir le Père Noël. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/article/2024/12/21/l-epineuse-question-du-sapin-de-noel-pour-mes-enfants-si-je-le-retire-autant-tout-annuler_6460051_4497916.html

“I’m not sure why people interpreted it as a romance rather than a novella on loneliness,” she says, “it’s quite scary that the two have been conflated really.” She thinks young people’s fatigue with app-based dating might be a part of why the book has been hitting home for them. “I wonder if people think…

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life — Read on bsky.app/profile/thisone0verhere.bsky.social/post/3ld4fibye4s2s

Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. It…

In recent years, an abundance of academic research from institutions including Harvard medical school, the University of Oxford and King’s College London found evidence that the internet is shrinking our grey matter, shortening attention spans, weakening memory and distorting our cognitive processes. The areas of the brain found to be affected included “attentional capacities, as…

Chocolaterie, fromagerie, parfumerie … Parisian shops sound as gorgeous as they look. We choose stores with a history of exquisite craftsmanship — Read on www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/dec/07/13-of-the-best-and-most-beautiful-shops-in-paris

THE LUDIC LOOP of the internet has automated our inner worlds: we don’t have to choose what we like, or even if we like it; the algorithm chooses for us. Take Shein, the fast fashion leviathan. While other fast fashion brands wait for high-end houses to produce designs they can replicate cheaply, Shein has completely…

Les mèmes d’extrême droite se diffusent dans un écosystème qui s’est encore étoffé depuis 2016, incluant les réseaux sociaux d’extrême droite Gab, Truth Social, Gettr et Parler. Sans oublier X (ex-Twitter). Car le militant d’extrême droite le plus visible au monde, Elon Musk, est désormais propriétaire d’un réseau social entier, sur lequel il diffuse quotidiennement…

There’s an assumption that because of the relationship between metabolic rates, volume, and surface area, animals get an average of one billion heartbeats out of their bodies before they expire. Turns out there’s some truth to it. — Read on kottke.org/13/02/does-every-species-get-a-billion-heartbeats-per-lifetime