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The article author is a woman. Also, a lot of people are missing that she is talking about children, not university students. She teaches A-levels, or the equivalent to AP classes …

Pretty sure Yahoo uses Google. Maybe you meant Bing?

Why not? Sega used to trash Nintendo in their ads. This isn't even insulting.

That is a fairly confusing title.

In addition to the whole thing about young people learning faster, there is also the part where they have much, much more free time and less responsibilities they have to take care…

Foobar does. You have to configure it but you can do it.

Seconded - Foobar2000 is a great music app. No visual bells and whistles, just functionality. It gets out of your way, and it's fast. Also, it was developed by some of the people w…

Is anyone else really bothered by these pullout quotes? They are repeating basically 25% of the content on any given page. I'm reading the article, you don't have to lure me in lik…

...Have you ever played a Super Nintendo? Diagonals were easier on that thing than any D-Pad that came after (save the 64's, which was hardly used).

Sir, what on Earth is up with the "t" in your font? So jarring.

How are you planning to defeat the chicken and egg problem of content vs users?

Same thing with me. I feel like the only other people who do this are high school teachers (???).

I've been waiting for someone to put a name to this kind of thinking.

And what about the thousand other guys in his village? Think they fared well?

The villagers don't have cheaper food... First of all, if they were villagers, they were self-reliant and gathered, grew, or hunted their own food. Second of all, do you really thi…

Well, there was more oxygen in the air back then, which gave animals more energy. The largest pterodactylid was the Quetzalcoatlus, with a wingspan of about 40 feet. I understand i…

Problem is, once you're rich and your safety is guaranteed, what's there to keep you in line? Where's your incentive to act in a certain way? You could be pulled in a million diffe…

This sounds like it's straight out of Dan Ariely's "The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty". Well, the experiment. Not the lackluster description of the experiment.

All of you reading this have a dramatically high chance of having Asperger's Disease. It's why you've always been so emotionally/socially disconnected and logical. It's why you hav…

You are totally right. People attribute skills they learn naturally as totally inborn. They say Bach was a genius at piano because he was able to play at age 4 - but honestly, that…

>> I almost wonder if skimming huge amounts of information online has somehow re-trained my brain to not absorb knowledge anymore. I feel the same way. I find myself skipping aroun…

Sedimentary? Oh, you mean like a golem, right?

Can't tell if this is sincere, or just a summary of what everyone else has said. Probably sincere, I guess.

No. He doesn't want to get kicked out of Star-Bucks, have you read?

Feynman considered working out those equations for those complex physical things "fun". He must have been an extraordinarily talented thinker because that sounds like work to me. W…