Such radical simplicity is surprisingly complicated to produce. Since 1889, the General Pencil Company has been converting huge quantities of raw materials (wax, paint, cedar planks, graphite) into products you can find, neatly boxed and labeled, in art and office-supply… Read More ›
Articles
How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
Dinner consumed and sleep completed, I awoke with one of the worst bouts of food poisoning I’ve ever encountered, a wasting that lasted through midway into the next week. Eventually, the illness subsided, but I wasn’t concerned when I woke… Read More ›
H&M’s hoodie is not racist
I’m a bit left wing, I support gay marriage, I don’t believe I am racist (apart from the natural racism that most of us white Western folk exhibit without realising it) and I would never judge anyone on the basis… Read More ›
I do not like tradition
This is the time of year when many people struggle. Christmas is hard for those who are lonely and the New Year is even harder. It’s sad that people have to go through this every year, but I wonder if… Read More ›
Making Sense Of Complexity
Now that is a brilliant way to present an article.
The race to save a child from a genetic death sentence
Jeff Beish, a truck driver, was often away for extended stretches of time. That day in 2016, however, he was in the living room with his three-year-old son watching television. “It was the loudest boom I’d ever heard. Then I… Read More ›
The ubiquity of phones
There was a time not so long ago that websites and blogs like this one would happily cover all of the latest developments in the PDA and phone worlds. It was exciting and there was always some new development to… Read More ›
Why watches?
I am often asked why I have such a fascination with mechanical watches and it is a difficult question to answer. It’s not like I am adversed to modern technology, as you well know, but there is something about a… Read More ›
Apple slowing down older iPhones is actually a good thing
I find the whole Apple deliberately slowing down your iPhone over time to be basically a scam. They knew when they designed the phone that the CPU+battery specs wouldn’t work over time, so they basically did what VW did with… Read More ›
Abdelhak ‘Appie’ Nouri
The photo, which the museum has said will remain on display for generations, captures the moment when Nouri’s father, Mohamed, lifted himself through the sunroof of his car to acknowledge the huge crowds that had lined the streets around their… Read More ›
