Modern Mindfulness, Continued: Chade-Meng Tan Follows Up
Last week, The Cubit published an interview with Chade-Meng Tan, best known for his work…
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“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan
If the words “corporate” and “mindfulness” no longer sound strange together, it’s partly because of the career of Chade-Meng Tan. A…
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Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling
What we search for may be instructive, but what we turn up may be just as important.
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Hide the Religion, Feature the Science: 60 Minutes Drops the Ball on Mindfulness
Anderson Cooper’s journey into mindfulness was featured on the latest episode of 60 Minutes, and it…
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Google-Phonics, Or, ‘What Is the Sound of a Thousand Tech Workers Meditating?’
Google’s mindfulness guru wants to “democratize enlightenment”—not through boots-on-the-ground activism, of course, but through a proliferation of wearable gadgets and prohibitively expensive mindfulness seminars.
Read MoreGoogle Data Reveal Poor Have An Interest Above “Dark” Religion
The estimable David Leonhardt made a media thing happen over the past few days with…
Read MoreThe Google Question of Evil
The slogan “Don’t be evil” prompts questions Google’s chairman seems ill-equipped to answer.
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Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal
In the wake of a series of high-profile April Fool’s pranks and a hoax at the expense of mega-preacher Joel Osteen, the question remains: what makes us believe in bacon-flavored mouthwash, a Martian invasion, or the renunciation of faith by one of the world’s most famous Christians?
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Are Colored Eggs More
Easter-y than Cesar Chavez?
What anger over Google’s Easter doodle reveals.
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Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two
What is it about rage that pervades so much thinking about Islam? Start by picking up the latest issues of Time and Newsweek—America’s airport reading—and talking to Google.
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