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POPSInformation age leaves our heads full of facts but empty of ideas INFORMATION Overload – what it is and how to get rid of it: • The high volume of information coming from sources such as the internet, 24-hour television and blogs has led to complaints of "information overload". While this sounds like a new phenomenon, the term was first used in 1970 by Alvin Toffler, an author, who warned that the human brain did not have the capacity to take in, interpret and store increasingly large volumes of information. • More recently, a psychiatrist at King's College London found that information overload can harm concentration just as much as marijuana, with men twice as likely to be distracted as women. • Research found information overload can reduce a person's ability to focus just as much as losing a night's sleep. • Psychologists who study visual processing and decision-making have shown the brain can cope with only about five messages at any one time.
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POPSAnd That's The Way It Is "Truthfulness and accuracy have little pull at all anymore; only the most fantastical, the most horrible, and the most simplified are served up for public consumption.And we eat it, and eat it greedily, until we’ve become obese in mind and scared in spirit."
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POPSTV impairs speech development in young children More: It's the seventh study to suggest that TV hurts children's language development, Strasburger says. A March report from Harvard Medical School found that watching TV neither helped nor harmed children's language skills. Though Christakis acknowledges that there is still some debate about whether watching television is harmful, he says there's no evidence to show that it's helpful. That's why the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no TV for babies under age 2. "We need to avoid parking babies in front of screens," Strasburger says. "Parents need to realize they need to be the primary entertainment for their babies. Parents are movie stars when their kids are babies. It doesn't last long."
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POPSThe Visionaries To see when Visionaries will be airing on public television in your area, click http://www.pubtv.net/online/visionaries/air_times.CFM. This link will open up a new browser window with information about when and where Visionaries is broadcast.
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POPSCartoon Legend JOE BARBERA dies He provided me with many, many laughs over the years. My childhood entertainment was primarily based on his creations! Quite sad, but seems like he lived a very long and filling life.
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POPSAll TV dramas in Iran to feature prayers newsreaders invoke God before each bulletin Anchor woman: God is great. And speaking of great, Spiderman 3 is smashing box office records. Anchor man: Praise God. Not many praising George Bush though, as his approval rating is now below 30%. Sports Guy: Hail, Mary full of grace. Favre beats the Vikings with a 60 yard touchdown pass as time ran out! Weather guy: Hey! I was going to use Hail Mary.
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POPSCalifornia To Ban TV: But Not For Good Reason (like there’s nothing decent to watch) Of course, television sets, just as with dishwashers and refrigerators, are getting more efficient all the time, a process that the free marker excels at on its own - at least it used to, before the age of AIG, bailouts, and executive compensation caps. But, rather than let nature and consumer choice take its course, the CEC must be seen as acting. For bureaucracies that don’t act are soon acted upon by politicians. Unsaid is the fact that, if anything decent were being produced for television, emissions would skyrocket. On this basis NBC should make out like a bandit with a carbon cap-and-trade program since their sole show in the prime-time top-20 Nielsen ratings is rated an energy-saving #20, translating weak viewership into an Earth-friendly virtue, and a few million tons of valuable carbon credits.
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