Josef Pieper on silence and leisure
I came across this on the ever wonderful First Known When Lost blog: “Leisure is a form of silence, of that silence which is the prerequisite of the apprehension of…
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“the primacy of the material world over the digital”
From Janan Ganesh’s “Notebook” column in the FT, 29/10/16 (firewalled): As the internet stirred at the turn of the 1990s, its distance-closing properties were talked up. Speculative accounts of the near-future…
Fifty Ways to Build a Hedgehog House
Well, not quite fifty – but there is a range of methods seen in these YouTube videos on the apparently simple project of how to build a hedgehog house. Sometimes one…
Management Secrets of the Manhattan Project: The Dabbler, July 16 2015
As featured on the BBC website… I am well aware of the moral issues pointed out by the the third commentator here. Perhaps the somewhat arch tone passed him by, and the mockery…
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