Art & Culture

By Alexandra Alter (WSJ) Enhanced e-books—which have multimedia features such as audio, video, pop-up graphics, 3-D images and animation—are being touted as the next frontier in the digital-books landscape. The explosive growth of e-book sales, coupled with the rapid adoption of iPads, Nook Tablets and Kindle Fires, has prompted publishers to experiment with new...
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(io9) Let’s meet 10 of history’s most influential scientific and technological visionaries, along with their drugs of choice. 9. Francis Crick — LSD Francis Crick — of the DNA-structure discovering Watson, Crick, and Franklin — reportedly told numerous friends and colleagues about his LSD experimentation during the time he spent working to determine the...
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(University of Missouri-Columbia) Traditional media, such as newspapers and television news, require readers and viewers to intentionally seek out news by picking up a newspaper or turning on the television. The Internet and new technologies now are changing the way readers consume online news. New research from the University of Missouri shows that Internet...
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By Karen E. Klein (Bloomberg) From selling typewriters in his native Ontario, Canada, in the 1970s to wrestling with Microsoft (MSFT) in the 1990s as the co-founder and chief executive of open-source software company Red Hat (RHT), Bob Young has been a fiercely competitive serial entrepreneur. His latest venture is 9-year-old Lulu.com, a website...
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The definition of neurosis is very simple. If we agree that 2+2 = 4 is reality, then the psychotic says 2+2 = apples don’t like bananas, or something equally uncooperative, but the neurotic says, yes, 2+2 = 4 but I can’t stand it. Much of the pain that the individual faces in accepting reality...
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