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But if you ask the experts, they are pretty unanimous that we don’t know much.

So are teenagers any better at oscillating?

“If they’re doing well, permitting them to have some choice permits them to find their own style.”

we have a college graduation rate that’s slightly below the average across all advanced economies.Even without the effects of the current crisis, there would be every reason to expect us to fall further in these rankings, if only because we make it so hard for those with limited financial means to stay in school. In America, with its weak social safety net and limited student aid, students are far more likely than their counterparts in, say, France to hold part-time jobs while still attending classes. Not surprisingly, given the financial pressures, young Americans are also less likely to stay in school and more likely to become full-time workers instead.

we need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation’s historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.

Still, people read more slowly on screen, by as much as 20-30 percent. Fifteen or 20 years ago, electronic reading also impaired comprehension compared to paper, but those differences have faded in recent studies.

displays have vastly improved since then, and now with high resolution monitors reading speed is no different than reading from paper.

A hyperlink brings you to information faster but is also more of a distraction.

once someone made a negative comment about a person who wasn’t there, the conversation would get meaner unless someone immediately defended the target.

gossip in the workplace also tended to be overwhelmingly negative, but the insults were more subtle and the conversations less predictable, says Tim Hallett, a sociologist at Indiana University.

Office gossip can be a form of reputational warfare