“L’imagination au pouvoir” Edo – giant cardboard bricks
Recently, via Kickstarter, I acquired no less than 50 giant cardboard bricks. These are the work of Simon Marussi of Edo, an Italian startup. The blocks came just before Christmas but…
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Tristan Gooley, observation and cognitive bias
Recently my brother gave me a present of Tristan Gooley‘s The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Tracks and Signs. I have read various Gooley books over the years, and to some…
Four score and more: Review of “Mortal Coil” by David Boyd Haycock
In contast to David Adam, this is a book whose place in my mental library has diminished rather than increased in the years since – to the extent I had forgot…
“A Panoply of All Possible Futures” From “The Zahir” by Jorge Luis Borges
Next to the Anthony Burgess quote I previously posted, this is my favourite literary passage on money Sleepless, possessed, almost happy, I reflected that there is nothing less material than…
Anthony Burgess on decimalisation.
This quote made me wonder about the cognitive impact of decimalisation. There seems to be a consensus that cognitive challenging activities help to reduce and/or delay dementia, and I wonder,…
Séamus Sweeney 