Detangle
Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa:
electronic days ~ we disconnect to connect ~ to be real again — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Tag: technology
Nithin Coca – “How I Fully Quit Google”
Could you stop using Google products? Completely? Not just Google Search, but Gmail, Calendar, and all the rest of their stable of products and services. Nithin Coca has done just…
“To use a crank, our tendons and muscles must relate themselves to the motion of galaxies and electrons.”
From Lynn White’s “Medieval Technology and Social Change“, Chapter III, Section 2, “The Development of Machine Design” (114-5) Students of applied mechanics are agreed that ‘the technical advance which…
Silence and the limits of language
“That for which we find words in something already dead in our hearts. There always is a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.” – Nietzsche, The Twilight of…
“Mental health apps offer a head start on recovery” – Irish Times, 18/01/18
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
Here is a piece by Sylvia Thompson on a recent First Fortnight panel discussion I took part in on apps in mental health. Dr…
“a media to look at rather than to read”
This article from Politico on Robert D’Agostino, the man behind the website Dagospia, is an interesting read on both Italian media/politics and the general mental landscape of the internet. I…
Frank Ebrington, The Dubliner who was The World’s Fastest Man
From “Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time” by Simon Garfield Before sport became a subject for record books, there was just the realisation that humans (upright, no tail)…
When technology doesn’t take: Update on #EdoBlocks and #Flic
A while back, I blogged enthusiastically about Edo blocks. These are Lego-ish blocks made of cardboard. At the time, they had proved great fun to make. They seemed to be a…
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