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Category Archives: Technology

Work, interrupted: the fragmentation of our attention

A culture of attention deficiency and distraction? An interesting recent discussion on Late Night Live (Radio National, Australia) about how many digital technologies are contributing not only to greater distraction … Continue reading

13 July, 2008 · 10 Comments

To bee or not to bee II

Following on from To bee or not to bee: our survival depends upon it, here is another article I happened upon that highlights the alarming issue of the mysterious depopulation … Continue reading

15 April, 2007 · 2 Comments

To bee or not to bee: our survival depends on it

Addendum: See also To bee or not to bee II (14 April) An interesting article in Spiegel asks whether Genetically Modified crops are responsible for the alarming decimation of bee … Continue reading

8 April, 2007 · 7 Comments

Sophisticated ancient computer bedazzles

What a marvel. Only have time to excerpt extracts below at present but couldn’t pass up highlighting this amazing discovery of extraordinary ancient technical sophistication. Ian Sample, Mysteries of computer … Continue reading

1 December, 2006 · 1 Comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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