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John Bowlby and the Glass Cage of Automation

I recently finished reading Nicholas Carr’s 2014 book The Glass Cage: Automation and Us. In many ways Glass Cage is a follow up to Carr’s 2010 book The Shallows—What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. As you may recall, the FHL Foundation brought Carr in to speak about The Shallows as a part of […]

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FHL Foundation Makes Summer 2014 Grants

The board of the FHL Foundation made the following grants at their July 22, 2014, board meeting: 1) Vero Beach Museum of Art – Lecture Series – $15,000 2) Casa Q – Group Home for LGBT Youth – $10,000 Congratulations to the above grant recipients! With these two grants the FHL Foundation closes its grantmaking […]

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UPDATE on Delaying Gratification and Valuing the Future

In my July 7th, 2014, post entitled QUICK LOOK: Time alone? Many would rather hurt themselves, I mentioned that when the future is discounted and not valued, it is hard to engage in such activities as planning for retirement. Well, the following article goes into all of this in detail: Retirement Saving Makes One Wealthy, […]

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Do We Go Through Anything Anymore?

I just read an interesting article on how to make friends when you’re a grown-up. Pulling from social psychology studies conducted in the 1950s, here are the three key ingredients the article points to as far as making friends: proximity repeated, unplanned interactions a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide […]

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QUICK LOOK: Time alone? Many would rather hurt themselves – Yahoo News

Time alone? Many would rather hurt themselves – Yahoo News. By Kerry Sheridan Here’s an interesting study. Just over 200 people ranging in age from 18 to 77 were simply asked to sit in a room for 15 minutes and then describe the experience to researchers. The room provided very little stimulation: no phones, no […]

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