Tag: technology
What’s behind phantom cellphone buzzes?
This is your brain on plugs.
'Brain' via www.shutterstock.comDaniel J. Kruger, University of Michigan
Have you ever experienced a phantom phone call or text? You’re convinced...
She phubbs me, she phubbs me not: Smartphones could be ruining...
James A. Roberts, Baylor University
The majority of our relationships are in shambles.
The U.S. divorce rate hovers at 40 percent, but that’s not the...
Can technology help fashion clean up its act?
Suzanne Mancini, Rhode Island School of Design
Chemical waste, mass production and consumerism are all byproducts of an industrialized global economy.
The fashion industry is no...
Trump and Clinton want to bring back millions of outsourced jobs...
Stephan Manning, University of Massachusetts Boston and Marcus M. Larsen, Copenhagen Business School
One of the big themes in the current presidential race is how...
Is it time for a presidential technoethics commission?
Daniel N. Rockmore, Dartmouth College
A recent New York Times article highlighted the growing integration of technologies and textiles, displaying a photograph of a delicate...
How playing video games can change your retirement
Bob De Schutter, Miami University
The teenagers who were hooked on Pac-Man in the arcades and amusement parks of the early 1970s are getting ready...
2015, the year that was: science and technology
Maggie Villiger, The Conversation
There are a number of definitions of science, as both a process and a body of knowledge. At root, it’s an...
Windows 95 turns 20 – and new ways of interacting show...
Jonathan Roberts, Bangor University
The arrival of Microsoft Windows 95 on August 24 1995 brought about a desktop PC boom. With an easier and more...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
