I’m a sports fan. I grew up watching football games on Sunday afternoons, listening to baseball games on the radio as I fell asleep at night and cheering on the Nebraska Cornhuskers every Saturday in the fall. Sports has always served as an escape for me; a chance to tune out the world and its … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Gluttony of the Mind
To say we live in the information age is an understatement. According to a 2008 report, the average human mind processes 34 gigabytes of information a day (if you allow for eight hours of sleep, that is 2.1 gigabytes per hour). As one social commentator put it, we are exposed to more information in one … Continue reading