The banality of Facebook
Jonah Lehrer (a.k.a. the "boy-king of the neuroscience blogosphere") has a mild and gentlemanly rejoinder to Zadie Smith essay which verges on moral panic about the Facebook phenomenon. Back in 2000 I remember listening to literary critics rave about Smith's White Teeth. I'm a nerd, and when I read fiction it tends to be "speculative fiction." But I decided check out White Teeth. It was OK, though I didn't see what the big fuss was about. But then I suspect I lack some cognitive module which all