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Jonah Lehrer, self-plagiarism: The New Yorker staffer stopped being a writer and became an idea man. - Slate Magazine 29 Jun 2012 | 08:41 am
Given that continuous cycle of creation and reuse, blogging seems to have been a bad idea for Jonah Lehrer. A blog is merciless, requiring constant bursts of insight. For Lehrer and The New Yorker, th...
A Parent's Role in the Path to Adulthood - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com 30 May 2012 | 02:56 pm
Yet my research with Abigail Sullivan Moore, reported in our book, shows that many college students are in frequent contact with their parents — nearly twice daily, on average — and that frequency of ...
Social Media's Small, Positive Role in Human Relationships - Zeynep Tufekci - Technology - The Atlantic 22 May 2012 | 01:00 pm
In other words, texting, Facebook-status updates, and Twitter conversations are not displacing face-to-face socializing -- on average, they are making them stronger. Social media is enhancing human co...
The Case for Breaking Up With Your Parents - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education 8 May 2012 | 09:48 am
Parental engagement even in the lives of college-age children has expanded in ways that would have seemed bizarre in the recent past. (Some colleges have actually created a "dean of parents" position—...
Disjoined at the Hip - Lingua Franca - The Chronicle of Higher Education 8 May 2012 | 09:26 am
In their book Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, published more than 20 years ago but still largely on target with its observations, William Strauss and Neil Howe proposed tha...
