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Category: Information Overload

Stop publishing so much already!

by Kristina Lerman on Mar 22, 2013 | Categories: Information Overload

Got your attention? Now that I have it, I would like to take a few minutes to discuss the role of limited attention and information overload in science. Attentive acts such as reading a scientific paper (or a tweet), answering an email, or watching a video require mental effort, and since the human…