Al-Shabaab looking for attention

The Somali jihadi group Al-Shabaab grabbed headlines at the weekend when it released a video urging Muslims living in the United States, Britain and Canada to launch terrorist attacks against…

The Attention Machine

Human attention isn’t stable, ever, and it costs us: lives lost when drivers space out, billions of dollars wasted on inefficient work, and mental disorders that hijack focus. Much of…

Nationwide ad meant to be jarring

And Jauchius told his colleagues that the dead child ad “balances that edge of being interventionist to get attention, but it’s approachable enough not to turn people off at the…