Author Archives
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Why Are You Always Tired?
I tried tracking my sleep, but numbers are merely that and it made no difference to how I felt. I have felt tired for many, many years and have kind of gotten used to the feeling.
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Watch Advertisements
Watch advertisements have always fascinated me. If an ad is clever, funny, or invokes a special feeling within me, I am much more likely to make a purchase. And there is huge money in watch advertising. According to an article… Read More ›
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Interview with Kate Moore, author of The Radium Girls
In the early days of the 20th century, the United States Radium Corporation had factories in New Jersey and Illinois, where they employed mostly women to paint watch and clock faces with their luminous radium paint. The paint got everywhere… Read More ›
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Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All
The right price—the one that will extract the most profit from consumers’ wallets—has become the fixation of a large and growing number of quantitative types, many of them economists who have left academia for Silicon Valley. It’s also the preoccupation… Read More ›
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Apple Watch NikeLab: not quite right
John Gruber may have stumbled upon an area that Apple has been criticised for recently and that is ticking every single box when it comes to design. I wouldn’t have thought about it, but he is dead right- New limited edition… Read More ›
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The scary diner
This was a particularly fun assignment. Done for Fantasy Flight Games’ The Investigators of Arkham Horror, Tales of Adventure and Madness rulebook, which is chock full of great illustrations and graphics. Normally I spend a lot of time trying to… Read More ›
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Earth Between the Rings of Saturn
The spacecraft captured the view on April 12, 2017, at 10:41 p.m. PDT (1:41 a.m. EDT on April 13). Cassini was 870 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) away from Earth when the image was taken. Although far too small to… Read More ›
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If you have these vinyl records in your collection…
‘There are a few examples of valuable records people can be looking out for,’ Barton says. ‘The Beatles’ White Album is one. The early editions were individually numbered; The Beatles had 1-4, so these are obviously really rare, but any… Read More ›
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How Russia Tried to Cover Up a KGB Murder in London
In the weeks after Alexander Litvinenko was given a deadly dose of polonium-210 from a teapot in a Central London hotel, Russian authorities assured the British government that they would cooperate with the investigation and allow police officers to interview… Read More ›
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The Romain Jerome Super Mario Bros. Watch
The formula is rather simple, actually. First, brands assume that some people really like luxury watches and are willing to pay premium prices for original and exclusive designs. Second, they know that items which remind consumers of things they loved… Read More ›
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