Newsflash: Shorts Cooler than Pants??

I recall seeing an article within the last year or so as a headline on Yahoo, titled something like:

"Taylor Swift Beats Summer Heat by Wearing Shorts."

Umm. Thanks. Apparently, like millions of people around the world, she has discovered that short pants promote cooler body temperatures than long pants. Congratulations to whoever was paid to write that shorts are cooler in the summer than long pants.

The benefit of technology is what must be mastered by its users: the ability to access huge amounts of information. Its beautiful that so many people can learn so much. Its great that people can make a living sharing that information, or just do it because they want to. Its not great that people might believe the most important information they can share is, essentially: "Woman wears short pants because they are self-evidently more comfortable in hot weather." Remember, this was a headline on a website that is attempting to bill itself as a serious news source on the internet.

Let's let information and access afforded by technology be something to build with instead of something to zone out with. Go check out something important or different: the geography of Asia, the history of a ghost town, photos of Death Valley, or recordings of whales.

Hopefully I won't have to write a companion piece when someone puts on a jacket in winter.