Fascinating Blog The “Attention Singularity” and cultural psychosis Have you ever wondered what a culture's collective psychosis feels like? I think this is…BenjaminMay 19, 2016
Fascinating Blog It’s not so much “identity theft” as “authenticity theft” Many years ago while visiting Texas during an election season, I caught a lot of…BenjaminJanuary 13, 2016
Fascinating Blog The Parallels of Polarized Discourse What if the medium is the message is the zietgiest? There may be no odder…BenjaminDecember 3, 2015
Fascinating Blog Love in the time of “Gameification” There is a fascinating article in the current SF Weekly about the way App designers…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015
Fascinating Blog The pseudo-modern death wish In the magnificent opening essay of his 1912 masterpiece “The Tragic Sense of Life,” Miguel…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015
Fascinating Blog Wait, we cured depression? Charles Barber writes in Salon that we now live in the Age of Trauma. Every…BenjaminJuly 12, 2015
Fascinating Blog Let’s map the cracks in reality! William Eggington has an essay in the New York Times’ “The Stone” blog about the way in…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog Absurd research suggests that atheists aren’t really atheists To say that modern psychology is ill-suited to studying the religious mind is much like…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog Kids reveal the dardnest epistomological assumptions The research on comparative cultural parenting is fascinating – and humbling, once you realize just…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog A billion people shouldn’t have this much trouble settling in love Read The Atlantic Article about “Budget Wives” in China just after reading Anne Lamott’s review of a…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015