| Eclectic: David Brittan's Adventures in Journalism |
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| Eclectic: David Brittan's Adventures in Journalism |
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| S C I E N C E & T E C H N O L O G Y |
| F E A T U R E S Spending More and Enjoying It Less? Consumption's "moral tax" Scott Adams, Gadfly Management according to Dilbert When Bad Things Happen to Good Factories How to banish bottlenecks E S S A Y Waiting for Uncle Bill Why Gates turned philanthropic R E V I E W S Troubled Convergence Cutting the digital Gordian Knot Not Dead Yet Apple Computer's flying circus |
| SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY |
| BUSINESS WORLD |
| ART & INTANGIBLES |
| E S S A Y S You Too Can Be a Genius Limits of audience participation Song of the Perfect World: A Musical Hallucination Classical music and democracy The Shadow of Your Smiley Keep your damn winky, too The High Art of Apollo XI A 25th-anniversary homage R E V I E W S Outing the Dead Handel as Orpheus as mincemeat On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a God Faith, mysticism, and TechGnosis |
| D.B. dreams of a world where people pursue humanitarian ideals as avidly as they shop for bath towels, where imagination and intellect outrank fashion, and where our cultural ADD has given way to a rabbit-eared attentiveness. Has D.B. gone mad? Or has he been listening to classical music again? All is revealed in Song of the Perfect World: A Musical Hallucination. |
| MUSIC AND AMERICAN IDEALS |
| Wandering through Boston College’s new $80-million science center, D.B. met a physicist who goes for days without sleep—his work on superconductivity is that absorbing and the stakes (a Nobel Prize for sure) are that high. It was one of four encounters with researchers who are in the thick of B.C.'s Scientific Revolution. COVER STORY, BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE |
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| QUEER EYE FOR THE BAROQUE GUY |
| F E A T U R E S Scientific Revolution Quantum leaps at Boston College The Accidental Technologist Serendipity in the chem lab Talking Hands Can machines learn our gestures? Swiftest Ship in the Shipping Business A bid to speed transatlantic cargo A Cure for Surgical Chaos Prepping ORs for "telesurgery" E S S A Y My Mind Explores the Universe Behind crank letters, real people R E V I E W Art and Utility The quest for Machine Beauty |
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| F E A T U R E S Thinking Lessons How software can boost kids' IQ Harmonic Convergence Music ed for the deejay crowd E S S A Y Long Live Roy G. Biv In praise of human memory |
| E S S A Y S Net-Powered Naming Help for tone-deaf parents SOB = MC Einstein's shocking letters Call Me "Hair Einstein" Where the physicist's head was at Anagrams Made Easy The wordsmith's digital assistant Let Them Eat Toast The BBC falls for D.B.'s little joke |
| CALISTHENICS FOR THE MIND |
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| As an educational technique, memori- zation is going the way of the dunce cap. But D.B. won't let it go without a fight. Well- learned facts can come in handy, as can the mnemonic devices that were once used to teach them. D.B. strolls down memory lane, crying Long Live Roy G. Biv. |
| LOST MEMORY |
| When David Stevens was in his teens, his longtime troubles with schoolwork evaporated. He believes a regimen of mental exercises and puzzles made him smarter. Now, armed with a Harvard doctorate and a $2 million grant, Stevens is attempting to "bottle" that regimen in the form of software. He recently told D.B. about his plans to trans- form computer games into Thinking Lessons. COVER STORY, ED. MAGA- ZINE (HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION) |
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| B U S I N E S S W O R L D |
| Here's a seemingly obvious bit of consumer psychology that, according to MIT's Drazen Prelec, most businesses ignore: "When you purchase any good, your enjoyment of it is reduced by the psychological cost of paying for it." That cost—the "moral tax"—is least burdensome when the payment scheme fits the product, as Prelec explains to D.B. in Spending More and Enjoying It Less? |
| THE STING OF CONSUMPTION |
| The composer of Messiah? Gay? Tell Tchaikovsky the news. Although an eminent musicologist believes there is something to be gained from rummaging around in George Frideric Handel’s closet, D.B. is not convinced. He pooh-poohs such scholarly probings in Outing the Dead. |
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| A few years ago, D.B. twitted Bill Gates for sitting on his fortune instead of solving the world's ills. No sooner did those words hit print than Gates started giving away billions. Coincidence? Or had he read Waiting for Uncle Bill? |
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| Sample D.B.'s editorial work for Saga Magazine, Technology Review, Boston College Magazine, Think Research, and others. Meet D.B.'s author-collaborators. |
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