Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen
analysis cognitive exposure mercury
A Quantitative Analysis of Prenatal Methyl Mercury Exposure and Cognitive Development
analysis changes fish population
A Quantitative RiskBenefit Analysis of Changes in Population Fish Consumption
technology
The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.
time
Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.
degrees embedded mind online search within
The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.
concepts left unlike
English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.
enriched via
I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.
arabic features jewish
The Muslim heaven features prominently in the Quran, Arabic poetries and Hadith. The Jewish heaven, though, is still a mystery; it's mystic.
fit
Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum.
appears characters felt provided
A writer appears in everything that he does. That said, I felt like writing characters with my own name, in fact, provided me with something of a smoke screen.
post
You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.
alive basic engines fairly jewish jews kept life machines outsource qualities regard seems
To outsource your memory to machines - which is what many of us do with regard to our use of search engines - seems to me to be fairly antithetical to the basic qualities of Jewish life that have kept the Jews alive for so long.
Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.
classic consciousness warning
There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.