Author Archives
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Remembering the computer that gave birth to PC gaming
Contrarily, my wife was half way through Super Mario Bros. on the Raspberry Pi by the time I’d finished installing the Rise of the Tomb Raider disc. The truth is, it wasn’t much better in 1991, when I received a… Read More ›
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How to discipline kids
“The best you can shoot for is influence, not control,” Green told Business Insider. “And that means your role is more of a partner than that of lord and master.” More at Business Insider. I suppose it depends on… Read More ›
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Posters for every single Star Trek Next Generation episode
You can see all 178 of Ortiz’s posters collected in Star Trek The Next Generation: The Art of Juan Ortiz, which came out this week. According to the press release, Ortiz was “inspired by indie-film and black-light posters, comics and… Read More ›
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An inverted pyramid home
Tokyo-based Makoto Takei + Chie Nabeshima /TNA designed the home to contrast the landscape, and to surprise and delight. Part of the Solo Houses project, which included design proposals from twelve architects, the pyramid volume houses a variety of… Read More ›
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Boys and Girls
John Lewis has become the first UK retailer to remove gender labels from its children’s clothing. The department store chain has not only taken “girls” and “boys” labels from clothes, but has also done away with the separate sections in… Read More ›
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How are smartphones affecting teenagers?
A generation who have spent their entire adolescence with smartphones are feeling the effects. My understanding is that teenage crime is down, under-age sex is down and that many children are actually more social than the generation before. All of… Read More ›
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We’ve predicted and broken human population limits for centuries
Worries about population expansion resurfaced with World War I. “Population pressure is always a major cause of war,” remarked biologist Raymond Pearl in his 1925 book The Biology of Population Growth. As head statistician for the U.S. Food Administration during… Read More ›
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This could have been the future
In the early 1960s, technology companies like Phillips began experimenting with condensing reel-to-reel tape players and recorders into something that could be carried around and used by a layperson. Eventually, this would lead to the ascendancy of the cassette tape… Read More ›
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Telephony in the year 2000 as seen in 1900
Tweeted by Steve Crandall. Not too far out then.
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The Most Amazing Places on Earth
The World is a beautiful place. It is a full of amazing places that everyone don’t know they really exist. There are many amazing places on Earth that you must see and enjoy once in life with your family and… Read More ›
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