Television Is Not Healthy For Young Children

Reuters reports on a University of Washington research study claiming that about 90 percent of U.S. children under age 2 and as many as 40 percent of infants under three months are regular watchers of television, DVDs and videos. “We don’t know from the study whether it is good or bad.… Read the rest

Happy New Year, and No Predictions

No predictions — I’m sick of them. But looking back at 2006, here are ten things — some everyday, small and some major — I’m happy and thankful for:

  1. My son Julian was born
  2. My now 13-year-old cousin Ariel survived bone cancer
  3. I have a happy, healthy family
  4. I have great friends
  5. I have a cool job and nice colleagues, and work in an exciting field
  6. My window-box flowers lasted the entire summer and into the fall, and looked pretty good
  7. We sold our home in Brooklyn and now are able to get a new home for our larger family
  8. My Jeep Wrangler, which I purchased in college, is 11 years old and still runs like new
  9. I documented personal and business life through just over 2,000 digital photos, over 10 hours of video (and a lot more hours of editing), a few hundred blog posts and about 40 published articles about media and culture
  10. I launched AttentionMax
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