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Robert's Article on Jean Twenge: The Smartphone Generation
Dr. Jean Twenge has published a book to answer this question: "iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us".
Twenge delivered a sold-out talk at the Santa Barbara City College Garvin theater to present her findings. The event was part of the ongoing Mind and Supermind series of the School of Extended Learning.
Other Recent Articles by Robert
Robert Bernstein has been taking Spencer Sherman's Consciousness Class since 2009
Below are other articles you may find of interest
Measuring Modernity - The US is Not Number One -- Scientific American - December 2003
Ronald Inglehart and Wayne Baker of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
conduct one of the few scientific and systematic measures of modernity.
The world map they generate shows how the US has more in common with
many fundamentalist Third World countries than it has with Western
Industrialized nations. The complete original map is at
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs/articles/folder_published/article_base_54
Gene Roddenberry interviewed in The Humanist Magazine 1991
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry tells what Star Trek is really about and
includes his views of religion, humanism and the future
Packing Pavement - by Jim Beamguard of the Tampa Tribune
The vitality of a city comes from its pedestrians,
not its cars. Cars consume enormous amounts of space and radically
change the landscape.
A fantastic graphic representation of land use impacts of different
transportation modes.
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