brain and what happens if you just unplug. paul ashely a professor at university of the kansas says his teenager s compulsive use at cell phones but decided to look at we grownups. good to see you. good to see you. harris: i understand you went on a trip. this is it what our story on a trip. you sent us amazing pictures recently. you and your other really smart friends got together and would decide to turn it into a research trip. tell me about the trip and what you found out. well the trip that was organized by dave strayer, who also studies distracted driving. he was the wonderful opportunity living in utah to be able to go out into these gorgeous environments with has classes and just take time out and study how cognition works in the wild. so he invited a group of us along to look at this because, the literature, over the last 30 years has told us two things. one, attention is really important for everything that we do. and two, it seems like natural environments are the enviro
events around the world and the media desk bringing you all the video and live pics, 24/7, our rock stars. we start off with a fox business alert. disturbing jobless numbers out this morning. jobless claims are up, with a half million americans filing for unemployment in the latest week. that is the highest number since november and a sign employers may be getting ready to cut jobs yet again, ryan sweet, a senior economist with it moody s and joins us now. tough news, but nice to see you today. thanks for having me. tell us about why this 500,000 number is so psychologically important to the economy right now. well, to put it into perceive, we d like to see initial jobless claims near 400,000, consistent with an improvement in the labor market, and right now we re at 500,000 which suggests that the job market has taken a step back the last couple of weeks. what does it mean for the recovery? are we in an economic recovery right now? i think the recovery is underwa