Thursday, July 25, 2013

McDonald's Spending Journal: Beneficial or Patronizing?

Last week, Stephen Colbert did a story on the spending journals that McDonald's provides its low-wage employees. Are these journals helpful to the employees - or are they patronizing?
McDonald's Spending Journal

Times Magazine Commentary

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Multitasking Mayhem

In a story on NPR's Science Friday, Professor Clifford Nass outlined the disadvantages of doing more than one thing at a time, including distraction, poor concentration, and decreased creativity.

Stephen Colbert did a hilarious piece on this story as only he can! LINK

We all think we are good at multitasking and that it saves us time, but often we pay in mistakes and wasted time when we have too much going on at once.