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A Conversation between an Amber Traffic Light and an Amber Gambler *

* An “Amber Gambler” refers to a driver who recklessly accelerates to beat a yellow/amber traffic light instead of slowing down, stopping safely, and not taking a risky chance...

Hare and Tortoise – After the Race

Hare desperately needed a double espresso, so he and Tortoise—who wanted to celebrate his win with a large green tea—headed across the meadow toward town, the finish line already disappearing in the...

Emotional Life under Slow Communication

Imagine, for a moment, a time when patience and waiting were not extraordinary virtues but the default settings of daily life—expected behaviors, even survival skills. Waiting months on end in a...

The Cost of Speed

We live in an age where speed is inescapable, and where people seem almost trained to live fast, at least on the surface. Yet, the demands of such a lifestyle come with an accumulation of side...

Turning Back the Clock to Slow Entertainment

Imagine the scene. It’s 1952, somewhere in England, and a young girl—no more than six—sits in eager anticipation, eyes fixed on what appears to be a blank television screen. A moment later, her...

Vertically Integrated Education is Efficient, But What About Enchantment in Learning?

In the summer of 2006, I, along with about fifty other eager undergraduates, filed into a bright auditorium at Concordia University’s downtown campus in Montreal to begin Psychology 280 – Adolescence...

“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting…The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting” --Milan Kundera