28% of Americans read for pleasure in 2004, down to 15% in 2017.
"It's tempting to blame the decline on the recent proliferation of computers, cellphones, video games and the like. But the data don't really bear that out. For one, the NEA data show that reading has been on the wane since at least the 1980s, well before the advent of Facebook and Fortnite.
A long-term study of reading trends in the Netherlands points to a different culprit: television. From 1955 to 1995, TV time exploded while weekly reading time declined. “Competition from television turned out to be the most evident cause of the decline in reading,” the authors of that study concluded."
28% of Americans read for pleasure in 2004, down to 15% in 2017.
"It's tempting to blame the decline on the recent proliferation of computers, cellphones, video games and the like. But the data don't really bear that out. For one, the NEA data show that reading has been on the wane since at least the 1980s, well before the advent of Facebook and Fortnite.
A long-term study of reading trends in the Netherlands points to a different culprit: television. From 1955 to 1995, TV time exploded while weekly reading time declined. “Competition from television turned out to be the most evident cause of the decline in reading,” the authors of that study concluded."
love the pictorial explanation. everything is better explained with a picture!
"rationality is not knowing facts, but knowing which facts should be considered"
the second example blows my mind. never seen more clear proof that human minds {don't work with, aren't primed for, suck at} probability.
cyberpunk is back, baybee! just in time for 2020!
".. If you had the four original disks from the 1997 release.."
hand me those floppies, I'm going in!
"Blade Runner is on sale for $8.99 on GOG now. After Jan. 2, the price will go back up to $9.99."
give me that pseudo-antiestablishmentarian capitalism, baybee! hack the planet, etc.
32 inch 4K with arm at a decent price?
height adjustable?
will there be "considerable debate" this time around?
from Wikipedia:
"...there was a considerable debate over whether the United States should participate in the 1936 Games. Mahoney, the president of the Amateur Athletic Union, led newspaper editors and anti-Nazi groups to protest against American participation in the Berlin Olympics. He contested that racial discrimination was a violation of Olympic rules and that participation in the Games was tantamount to support for the Third Reich."