Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Slave labor?

All right, so when I looked out the window and saw the kids not only raking the leaves in the yard but they were doing so ON THEIR OWN, WITHOUT BEING TOLD, ON A TARP, I admit, I felt a little guilty, I felt a little useless.

Long Live Paper!

A professor at Tufts argues why we shouldn't, as our Secretary of Education believes, abandon paper. He's talking mostly about the future of textbooks, but also about one's ability to concentrate well while reading on a computer or some other electric device. Answer: You get distracted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/opinion/long-live-paper.html?ref=opinion?hp&_r=0