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How we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know.We are surrounded by a world rich with visual information, but we pay attention to very little of it, …
How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.Chinese writing is character based, the one …
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact. Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of …
The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today.Death and the dead body …
How hormonal signals in one small structure of the brain-the hypothalamus-govern our physiology and behavior.As human beings, we prefer to think of ourselves as reasonable. But how …
Cold War-era FBI files on famous scientists, including Neil Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Alfred Kinsey, and Timothy Leary.Armed with ignorance, …
An argument that pleasure is a fundamental part of why we use technology, and a framework for understanding the relationship between pleasure and technology.The dominant feature of …
Why we complain about communication overload even as we seek new ways to communicate.Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that …
Why it matters that our relationship with nature is increasingly mediated and augmented by technology.Our forebears may have had a close connection with the natural world, but …
A leading innovation scholar explains the growing phenomenon and impact of free innovation, in which innovations developed by consumers and given away "for free."In this book, Eric …