220. Is Your Attention Span Shrinking?
No Stupid Questions17 Nov 2024

220. Is Your Attention Span Shrinking?

Does a surplus of information create a shortage of attention? Are today’s young people really unable to focus? And do goldfish need better PR?

  • SOURCES:
    • Neil Bradbury, professor of physiology at Rosalind Franklin University.
    • Nicholas Carr, writer and journalist.
    • Johann Hari, writer and journalist.
    • Charles Howard, University Chaplain and Vice President for Social Equity & Community at the University of Pennsylvania.
    • Felicity Huntingford, emeritus professor of functional ecology at the university of Glasgow.
    • Gloria Mark, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine.
    • Rick Rubin, music producer and record executive.
    • Herbert Simon, professor of computer science and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.


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