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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Use It or Lose It: the intelligence that ‘difficult’ reading develops
My favourite event at the recent Sydney Writers’ Festival was ‘A Radical Rethink’, a discussion between three doctors: Karen Hitchcock, Norman Doidge and Ranjana Srivastaya. ‘Can we change our brains?’ asks the blurb. ‘How can we retain quality of life … Continue reading
Posted in the death of the reader
Tagged A Radical Rethink, addiction, ageism, capitalism, corporations, Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly, dementia, depression, digital dementia, fiction, grey tsunami, Haruki Murakami, individualism, Julian Assange, Karen Hitchcock, madness, memory, old age, Sydney Writers' Festival, technology
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