6 posts and columns on Sunday Times

Attention Versus Distraction? What That Big NY Times Story Leaves Out

in News on November 23, 2010 at 12:04 am PT

Yesterday’s Sunday Times devoted the lead slot of its front page to a long examination of the effects of the web on the attention spans of teenagers.

U.K.'s Times Gives Tally of Digital Sign-Ups

in News on November 2, 2010 at 11:58 am PT

News Corp.’s U.K. newspaper division announced Tuesday that more than 100,000 readers have paid for digital editions of the Times and Sunday Times–with about half of those being monthly subscribers–following a move to put the newspapers’ content behind a paywall.

“Soggy Pork”: The Other White Meat

in News on December 1, 2009 at 4:00 am PT

“Fifty years hence, we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.” Winston Churchill made that prediction in 1932 and now, some 78 years later, it’s beginning to come true. Scientists in Holland have taken muscle cells from a living pig and cultured them into a “soggy form of pork” in the lab.
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All The News We’ll Pay For: Why Newspapers’ Shrinking Circulation Isn’t All Bad

in Media on October 27, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

No surprise that Americans are dropping their newspaper subscriptions, as a new batch of numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed yesterday. But before you file this under “death of newspapers,” something to ponder for a second: This might not be the worst news in the world.
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