http://www.adambohannon.org Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:15:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.adambohannon.org/top-ten-myths-about-introverts/ http://www.adambohannon.org/top-ten-myths-about-introverts/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:59:51 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=18560 As someone who considers themselves an introvert, this is spot on. Check out the full article here. TL;DR version Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk. Myth #2 – Introverts are shy. Myth #3 – Introverts are rude. Myth #4 – Introverts don’t like people. Myth #5 – Introverts don’t like to go out [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/top-ten-myths-about-introverts/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/thomas-de-zengotita-on-authenticity/ http://www.adambohannon.org/thomas-de-zengotita-on-authenticity/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 20:57:34 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=17893 ]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/thomas-de-zengotita-on-authenticity/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/now-this-video/ http://www.adambohannon.org/now-this-video/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 05:39:49 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=17855 The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion, and yet it is the greatest of our miseries. - Pascal Met the creator of this video at a Media Ecology conference a few years ago. The idea comes from the book Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman. Read it.]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/now-this-video/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/social-networks-as-living-things/ http://www.adambohannon.org/social-networks-as-living-things/#comments Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:51:20 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=16223 via Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks | Video on TED.com. Your network and your place in it matters more than you might think.]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/social-networks-as-living-things/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/one-dimensional-us/ http://www.adambohannon.org/one-dimensional-us/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:08:52 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=670 “A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.” Video created by Andrew Huang. Sometimes things just seem to happen all at the right moment.  Tonight, I finished [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/one-dimensional-us/feed/ 1 http://www.adambohannon.org/speed-mind-counts/ http://www.adambohannon.org/speed-mind-counts/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:28:08 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=406 Great discussion on the (un)reality of multitasking and how our uses of new media might be affecting our ability to concentrate even when we aren’t plugged in.  Rebecca Roberts speaks with Lee Rainie, Founding Director of Pew Internet & American Life Project, and Clifford Nass, Stanford Professor and Founder and Director of the Communication between [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/speed-mind-counts/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/crosscultural-differences-happiness-east-west/ http://www.adambohannon.org/crosscultural-differences-happiness-east-west/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:23:09 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=362 Came across an interesting report via MindHacks on the different conceptions of happiness between East Asians and European-Americans.  I’m always happy to see research that closely and thoughtfully considers the impact of culture on pretty much any behavior or concept often taken as universal.  As an anthropology and psychology student I always approached psychological research [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/crosscultural-differences-happiness-east-west/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/edward-hall-education/ http://www.adambohannon.org/edward-hall-education/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:05:26 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=274 From Beyond Culture Citing Washburn (1973) on the importance of play in learning “Through play (emotional, repetitious, from within) children prepare for the adult life of their culture.  Separation of education from life…is new in the history of primates.  In the American school there is no view of adult life…In schools discipline is substituted for [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/edward-hall-education/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/live-public-empathy/ http://www.adambohannon.org/live-public-empathy/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:45:45 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=246 I came across a haunting trailer today for a documentary by (of?) Josh Harris and Ondi Timoner called We Live in Public.  According to Jason Calacanis, who wrote an excellent email-turned-blog-post about the documentary’s subject matter, “It’s a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing effects of technology, a somber topic that we all need to consider [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/live-public-empathy/feed/ 2