Tag: hurt

Does Knowing More Than One Language Help or Hurt Your Brain?

For most of the last century, America viewed bilingualism as a detriment. Experts felt that learning a second language was too big a burden for children’s delicate minds, and could result in confusion, compound learning difficulties, and stunt intellectual growth. But about a gene...

Neuralink Should Make Your Brain Hurt, Seriously.

Almost a quarter of a century ago, managers of the legendary Bell Labs reported several breakthroughs that could have changed technology forever: Within a year one of their young researchers named Jan Hendrik Schön had succeeded in creating an organic super-conductor, a laser built from organic...

Cuts to coverage will hurt our culture

ONE of Martin Boulton’s proudest moments as a journalist was convincing a former editor-in-chief of The Age to revive the paper’s iconic EG music and entertainment lift out. EG — short for Entertainment Guide — had been pushed aside in favour of&nb...