"Consider the Lobster" vs "the Unitasker"

The main difference between “the Unitasker” and “Consider the Lobster” is that one is an experiment and the other one is exploration. In “the Unitasker” A.J. Jacobs, tried to limit the number of times that he multitasked throughout the day for a month or so, researching different methods to help him like meditation. “Consider the Lobster” on the other hand researched the lobster community by analyzing Main Lobster Festival, the background of the lobster, how they cook them, some controversial issues that people have with them, etc. All of that made “Consider the Lobster” a little more factual and formal then “the Unitasker”, which was more of a dinner conversation. Although Jacobs still had facts and was performing an experiment, he tried to add more comedy then the lobster article. What they both had in common was that the authors had to do research in order to write their article. Jacobs researched different forms of meditation by using the Wii and reading different books about it. Wallace, who wrote “Consider the Lobster”, researched practically all aspects of the lobster in his article. They used different methods to get their point across due to their different audiences. “Consider the Lobster” was written for a former magazine called the Gourmet, so its main focus was on the culinary aspect of the lobster, describing why so many people are against eating it. “the Unitasker” was a chapter in a collection of experiments for a book called The Guinea Pig Diaries. This was made more for entertainment and would probably have a more youthful audience then the lobster article. Both had a definite question and similar responses to their question. In “the Unitasker” Jacobs was trying to see if he could go a full day without multitasking and in “Consider the Lobster”, Wallace was trying to answer if it is ethically okay to eat lobster since they are boiled alive. Neither one of them got a straightforward response to their question. Jacobs never actually went a full day without multitasking, but did learn to stop doing it as much to enjoy the smaller things in life. Wallace, found faults in both sides and concluded that it is too abstract of a question to respond too.