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Jólabókaflóð: The Icelandic Christmas Book Flood

Jólabókaflóð: The Icelandic Christmas Book Flood

I feel like 22 years has just been stolen from me and my family. Why? Because I recently learned about an Icelandic Christmas tradition called Jólabókaflóð. I’ll let the blogger at icelandwillmakeyouhappy.wordpress.com give you the details: “In Iceland, the Christmas season … starts with the publication of a catalogue, the bókatíðindi, a catalogue that lists …

This Is Your Brain On Google

This Is Your Brain On Google

It seems Google is making us all stupid. Or so says Nicholas Carr in the July/August issue of the Atlantic. For all you “power browsers,” Carr’s point seems to be that the internet is “chipping away [his] capacity for concentration and contemplation” because he now “expects to take in information the way the Net distributes …