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Narrated by the brilliant Stephen Fry, this audiobook features an inspiring prologue read by the author, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and …
Dr. Jean Twenge offers a portrait of a new generation that is growing up more slowly and more anxious -- …
Against the backdrop of World War II, friendship develops between a lonely crippled painter and …
Beautiful story
Against the backdrop of World War II, friendship develops between a lonely crippled painter and a village girl, when together …
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By …
Started reading this to my daughter. I know it's a classic but it's too long and detailed and we got bored with it and gave up towards the end. Maybe I should have tried an abridged version.
Started reading this to my daughter. I know it's a classic but it's too long and detailed and we got bored with it and gave up towards the end. Maybe I should have tried an abridged version.
@onekind@beige.party Haidt claims otherwise. www.afterbabel.com/p/international-mental-illness-part-two
Haidt argues the introduction of smart phones around 2012, with the resulting constant access to social media, has caused the decline in teen girls' mental health around the world, along with the loss of freedom as parents became more worried about "stranger danger". Research seems pretty robust to me, even though it cannot prove causation. I'm old so I grew up without mobile phones or internet, riding my bike around the suburbs. Even if the thesis of the book is wrong, I think a free range, smart-phone free childhood is not going to kill anyone, so why not try it? The only problem is that if your kid is the only one who doesn't have a smart phone or social media, they'll feel left out. So it's good to try and get your kids' friends' parents to ban the smart phones too. As regards letting kids roam the neighbourhood, I …
Haidt argues the introduction of smart phones around 2012, with the resulting constant access to social media, has caused the decline in teen girls' mental health around the world, along with the loss of freedom as parents became more worried about "stranger danger". Research seems pretty robust to me, even though it cannot prove causation. I'm old so I grew up without mobile phones or internet, riding my bike around the suburbs. Even if the thesis of the book is wrong, I think a free range, smart-phone free childhood is not going to kill anyone, so why not try it? The only problem is that if your kid is the only one who doesn't have a smart phone or social media, they'll feel left out. So it's good to try and get your kids' friends' parents to ban the smart phones too. As regards letting kids roam the neighbourhood, I suppose it depends where you live. Haidt let his daughter walk to school in NYC from the age of 9.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook’s potential and knew it …
When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good …
Sonia Orchard was in her forties when she told a therapist about the boyfriend she …
Orchard snuck into a nightclub in Melbourne in 1985 when she was 15, and met a 26 year old man. She went to a therapist 30+ years later, who encouraged her to report it. Great page turner. I had to keep reading to find out whether the bastard got it in the end. You can probably guess.
Sonia Orchard was in her forties when she told a therapist about the boyfriend she had when she was fifteen. …
