Hawthorne Press Tribune Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - July 20, 2017 “A Night to Remember” Celebrates Old School Music On July 15, attendees grooved to “Old School” music at the James R. Armstrong Theatre in nearby Torrance and enjoyed a concert featuring The Delphonics Experience, Soul Vibers Old School Review (pictured above during their set that showcased classic Motown hits) and Chemistry Sound. Photo by Daryl Lewis Smartphones Are Beginning to Mess with Our Heads By Rob McCarthy that smartphones are distracting, so lead Commerce, education and personal researcher Adrian Ward designed two communication haven’t been the same since the experiments to test “how dependence on these smartphone became the must-have consumer devices affects the ability to think and function electronic device. By one estimate, nearly every in the world off-screen. In the experiments, human being on the planet old enough will Ward and his team ask participants to do one have a smartphone very soon. There could of three things with their phones: place them on be six billion of these mobile communication the desk and within plain view; place them in devices worldwide by 2020, according to a pocket or purse; or store them in a separate business analytics company IHS Markit. A room. The UT-Austin team set out to discover decade ago, smartphones hardly existed. if the devices caused “brain drain”--aka the Yet, for all of the advances made because ability think clearly and concentrate. of smartphones, recent research points to an overdependence of the technology that shows up in how people nowadays talk, interact when together, and problem-solve. One recent study Free Digital by a team of researchers in Austin, Texas concluded that a smartphone nearby makes it Delivery harder to think and concentrate. The findings by the University of Texas team came from Herald Publications is now studying the technology and study habits of college students, but there’s application here offering to send you a link for high school administrators and teachers, to your favorite community parents and business leaders looking at ways newspaper every Friday! The to boost productivity and innovation in the emails will also include a list workplace. of upcoming local events. “Our smartphones enable—and encourage— constant connection to information, Just email us at: entertainment and each other. They put the dd@heraldpublications.com and world at our fingertips, and rarely leave our tell us which local community sides,” the co-authors wrote, adding that newspaper you’d like. so much connectivity has a consequence. “Although these devices have immense Simple as that and free!!! potential to improve welfare, their persistent presence may come at a cognitive cost.” Previous research in this area demonstrated It turns out that smartphones have gotten into people’s heads, or their psyches, more specifically. That was the conclusion of the UT-Austin team that reported that the presence of a smartphone negatively affects the owner’s ability to think, solve problems, and concentrate. Even if they’re not using their phones, the students experienced “brain drain,” according to Ward’s research. The closer the phone, the greater the disturbance too. See Smartphones page 8 Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................4 Classifieds............................3 Community Briefs...............2 Finance..................................4 Hawthorne Happenings....3 Legals................................ 6-7 Pets........................................5 Seniors..................................2 Sports....................................8 Weekend Forecast Friday Sunny 74˚/66˚ Saturday Sunny 75˚/65˚ Sunday Partly Cloudy 75˚/65˚ The Weekly Newspaper of Hawthorne
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