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Radio from anywhere in the world with a click
Radio Garden invites you to tune into thousands of live radio stations across the globe. By bringing distant voices close, radio connects people and places. From its very beginning, radio signals have crossed borders. Radio makers and listeners have imagined… Read More ›
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McGST Podcast Episode 84 (are we storing up tech health problems for the future?)
I this episode I discuss, with myself, if the tech we use today could cause health problems in the future when we realise what effect they have on us. Music by Tom Munch.
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Keep This to Yourself
I don’t ever talk about my body, not even to my sister or close friends. I can’t. I would lose my balance, my structural integrity. Instead, for years now, I have been trying to write about it. As Richard Rodriquez… Read More ›
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I’m off in my shopping time machine back to the mid 80s
Memories…
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What our dogs think about love, lust and laughter
Why do dogs get separation anxiety?Strictly speaking, most of them don’t, according to Petrina Firth, director of the company The Pet Coach and a specialist in the condition. She says she has only met one dog in her career with… Read More ›
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Do we have free will?
The question of free will is still hotly debated. On the one hand, we clearly experience ourselves as able to make choices and freely act on them. If you fancy some crisps, you can choose to walk into a shop,… Read More ›
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Is your smartphone camera lying to you?
I was genuinely shocked by some of the contents in the above video. The problem is that a lot of it makes sense and seems perfectly feasible, especially the moon part.
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Trans swimmer Lia Thomas smashes two US women’s records
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has broken United States records in two races over the weekend. The 22-year-old student from Austin, Texas, competed in the Zippy Invitational in Ohio where she smashed two records in the 200m and 500m freestyles… More… Read More ›
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TV is on the way out
I suspect that live TV makes up less than 5% of my screen viewing these days. It’s incredible how quickly this huge change has occurred for me. The above image was originally tweeted here.
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Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone
A decade before Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, a tiny team of renegades imagined and tried to build the modern smartphone. Nearly forgotten by history, a little startup called Handspring tried to make the future before it was ready. This… Read More ›
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