August 2009
26 posts
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Study finds people who multitask often bad at it -... →
multitasking-thegame:
WASHINGTON – The people who multitask the most are the ones who are worst at it. That’s the surprising conclusion of researchers at Stanford University, who found multitaskers are more easily distracted and less able to ignore irrelevant information than people who do less multitasking.
Quizmaster: “unless, of course, you can win fabulous expensive prizes, which we someday...
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Pretty much everywhere, it's gonna be hot. →
multitasking-thegame:
Quizmaster: “Balls all over the place.”
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Why Do We Hate the Word “Moist”? →
On the other hand, the Visual Thesaurus editor Ben Zimmer has noted that other hated words such as “Ointment and goiter share the ‘oi’ sound with moist: there must be something about that diphthong that gets under people’s skin.”
toy. you lose.