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Imaginary Friends: Scientific American So, just as a friendship evolves through spending time together and sharing personal thoughts and opinions, parasocial relationships evolve by watching characters on our favorite TV shows, and becoming involved with their personal lives, idiosyncrasies, and experiences as if they were those of a friend. (tags: psychology science culture media social…

Do You Have These Core Human Skills? – The Personal MBA ™ (tags: learning education life career psychology business development intelligence selfimprovement skills) Tracking deliveries of all kinds is on everyone's radar The relentless consumer need to track is really about how valuable our time has become, says Grant McCracken, a cultural anthropologist. But, he…

Mourning the Death of Handwriting People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says…

100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About (tags: technology history culture kids future list geek) The same name game We also typically tend to associate shared names with family, which can give a sense of connection, even if there isn't an actual blood bond. "I do feel a certain connection with those other Sam…

The Day the Copy Died….. – "I certainly find it interesting – as someone who never went to art college – that Cannes entries often expect a ludicrously high degree of visual literacy in their audience (every year there are a few winners that I simply cannot understand) whereas very few make much use of…

Should you go topless – or not? After all, no one bats an eyelid when men wander around resorts without a T-shirt on – and, heaven knows, these days some of them have bigger breasts than most of us (tags: guardian men women summer tanning beach) What Do You Think About in the Shower? While…