I recently discovered Patrick Mustain through a guest pieceon Scientific American. He’s also written a more in-depth piece on how the consumer fitness industry disguises the actual causes of America’s problems with obesity. I recommend giving it a read. On Scienceblogs, alarm over our contribution to global warming increases. Earlier this month, the amount of …
Category: health
The Internet vs Television: How They Affect Us, How We Affect Them
Literature on the deleterious effects of television on our minds has a long history. From garden-variety paranoia, to studies indicating an increase in passivity after viewing, to scathing social critiques like Neil Postman’s in Amusing Ourselves to Death, and literary condemnation through Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” and Fahrenheit 451—the Box will forever live in infamy. With …
This Week On Runicfire: March 11 – 17
This Monday’s round of links talk about how thinking harmless things are harmful makes you sick, the upside of pessimism and one man’s experience of growing up Catholic. Wednesday’s post will be partly about how culture affects sense of time, but mostly about how any one culture’s understanding of being human is woefully incomplete. And Friday I unleash …
Monday Links: Television Outshines Film, the Wii vs. Cancer, and the Rise of Rape in Morocco
I’d like to open this week at Runicfire with a collection of interesting links for your perusal. The Economist discusses how the Internet and economics is leading to a shrinking film industry and thriving television business. The Wii proves useful in combating fatigue in cancer patients through providing a source of low-intensity exercise. And Allison …