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Learning in the age of information: how access counterfeits understanding, and how to tell knowledge from wisdom

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By Graeme Brown Verified
| Silicon Canals Verified
We have quietly collapsed three things that used to be easier to tell apart: information, knowledge, and wisdom. The age of information has delivered an almost violent abundance of the first, more facts, papers, explainers and answers than any previous generation could have imagined, all a few keystrokes away. The comfortable assumption is that the other two follow along behind, that with so much information available we must by now be more knowledgeable and, eventually, wiser.
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Reading before bed does help you sleep, but the surprising catch is what you read it on

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By Graeme Brown Verified
| Science Blog
Reading before bed is one of the most commonly dispensed pieces of sleep advice, and unusually for a folk remedy, it has actually been put to the test. The results are encouraging but more specific than the headlines suggest, and the most interesting finding is not that reading helps you sleep, which it modestly does, but that the object you read from can quietly reverse the benefit.
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How to be a better man, according to the evidence rather than the two loudest camps

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By Graeme Brown Verified
| Silicon Canals Verified
How to be a better man is one of those searches that returns two opposite answers, both of them loud. One camp hands over a traditional script: provide, stay stoic, toughen up, need no one. The other hands over a critique: unlearn your masculinity, apologise for it, dismantle it. We think both miss, and the more useful answer sits between them, grounded less in ideology than in what the evidence actually shows helps men and the people around them.
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