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Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains…

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That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in…
Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.
Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what…
PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our…
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.
As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also…
A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing…
We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with…
The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is…
Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem…

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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like… — John Hospers
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests,… — Gregory Bateson
The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged,… — Florence Welch
I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas. — Richard Avedon
And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained… — Vanessa Carlton
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and… — Aldous Huxley
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. — Blaise Pascal
Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone,… — Virginia Woolf
The homes here are almost identical, but not quite, full of people almost identical, but not quite. — Neal Shusterman
Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem… — Clive Thompson
Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that. — Madisen Beaty
White people almost kissing! xD — Rachel Copeland

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