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McGST Podcast Episode 91 (living in bubbles, taking in refugees, Apple, dogs and YouTube)
Joanne and I discuss our ignorance of other people’s lives and answer some questions- Would you take in a refugee? You talk a good left-wing game. Sam Why do you stick with Apple? The products are so boring and closed-down…. Read More ›
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The Shape Of Walking
In those early days of the pandemic, classes moved online, and my partner and I no longer spent hours commuting to our respective universities to teach. Instead, we took turns pushing the stroller around our neighborhood. At each intersection we… Read More ›
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Why Japan returns almost everything
With an inner-city population fast approaching 14 million people, millions of items go missing here each year. But a staggering number of them find their way home. In 2018, over 545,000 ID cards were returned to their owners by Tokyo… Read More ›
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I Am… With Jonny Wilkinson
The podcast explores the remarkable transformations taking place within individuals and their understandings of them. Speaking with pioneers and thought leaders around the globe, Jonny wishes to redefine concepts of health and well-being, performance, purpose, leadership, relationships and human potential…. Read More ›
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The YEMA LED reinvented by KAVINSKY
In the 1970’s YEMA launched its first LED display watch, which became iconic in France. Fifty years later the YEMA LED is reinvented by KAVINSKY by perfectly capturing the 1970’s steampunk style, bringing this emblematic model back to the future…. Read More ›
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She died
A pregnant woman wounded in the Russian bombing of a Ukrainian maternity hospital has died along with her baby, reports say. Images showed her on a stretcher following the air strike in Mariupol last Wednesday, in which at least three… Read More ›
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No one actually thinks the stuff is going to cost more to produce…
If this thread is true you should be angry, very angry. I am posting in partly hoping that it’s true and partly not wanting to believe millions will suffer for the reasons given.
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30 years of PDA and smartphone OS…
If you haven’t heard of David Wood before then you need to catch up a little. One of the creators of the Psion palmtops in the 1990s and then one of the architects of Symbian OS in the 2000s, he… Read More ›
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Taking more than 8,000 steps has no added benefits (possibly)
Walking just 6,000 steps a day could reduce the risk of early death in people over 60, a study has found. Taking more than 8,000 steps, however, has no added benefit in reducing this risk, according to researchers from the… Read More ›
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AirPods vs the world
That is an amazing graph and I am presuming that it is accurate, but if it is Apple seems to be a juggernaut that is unstoppable at the moment. Originally tweeted here.
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