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October 16th, 2008

Most (normal) people watch sports as a social activity. They gather with their friends at someone’s house with a bowl of chips and salsa, or at some bar with a pitcher of beer. And for the most part, in this sense I am one of the normal people.
But when it comes to the Red Sox, [...]

A couple months ago, The Atlantic had a feature story titled Is Google Making Us Stupid? It’s about how the internet has changed how we read things. They cite a study:
They found that people using the sites exhibited “a form of skimming activity,” hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source [...]

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