Daily Archives: February 9, 2020

You can now be jailed for littering in Uganda.

Uganda has enacted a new law that bans littering in the country, with convicted offenders liable to a $540 fine or jail term for a period not exceeding one year. According to the Physical Planning Amendment Act No 2 of 2020 passed by the parliament on Tuesday, dropping or littering rubbish outside the litter bin will be an offense. It’s therefore mandatory for all premises to have a litter or garbage bin. The new law…

Screen reading is ruining your attention! Here’s what to do.

For Maryanne Wolf, it began “innocently enough.” As her work became more and more digital, emails shortened. She dropped magazine subscriptions. She started leaning on Google searches and weekly summaries for her reading — plenty of time to read more deeply over the weekend. Then leftover tasks took the weekends, too. If anyone should have been prepared for the change, it would have been Wolf, a scholar and literacy advocate who recorded her experience in…