Now that is a question and one that the more you think about the more depressed you get. We are born, our parents raise us, we get a job, buy a house, our children are born, we raise them, they… Read More ›
Articles
This Is How Sexism Works in Silicon Valley
Once we were airborne, the CEO, who’d brought along a few bottles of wine, started bragging about meeting Jenna Jameson, talking about her career as the world’s greatest porn star and how he had taken a photo with her at… Read More ›
How your digital self could ‘live’ on after you die
The death and funerals industry is due for a shake-up, a growing number of tech start-ups believe. After you die, how do you fancy springing back to life in the form of a digital avatar? Your digital ghost could jump… Read More ›
An Alternate Future for the Mall
Reforma 222 is one of dozens of urban malls in the largest city in North America. It is a stop on the Turibus circuit, and a popular weekend family destination. Malls may be dying north of the border, but in… Read More ›
Total Eclipse
A slope’s worth of snow blocked the road; traffic backed up. Had the avalanche buried any cars that morning? We could not learn. This highway was the only winter road over the mountains. We waited as highway crews bulldozed a… Read More ›
The 1939 Pro-Nazi Rally
In 1933, deputy fuhrer Rudolf Hess ordered Heinz Spanknobel, a German immigrant, to form Friends of New Germany, a group based in NYC, with the goal of spreading National Socialism throughout the United States. Though Spanknobel was eventually forced to… Read More ›
Apple News
For a long time now I have been installing and trying out various news apps which has obviously meant that I tend to jump between them to read the latest on specific topics and what is happening in the world…. Read More ›
Music and everything else
As someone who remembers CDs, vinyl and even cassettes I have much fondness for the mediums that music has traditionally been housed within. Mini discs were cool, cassettes were convenient and vinyl offers of the emotion I need in… Read More ›
Unconnected
We decided to spend some time as a family away from our normal lives and to do things that we would not normally do, like talk to each other. This is not easy when your children are 13 and 17… Read More ›
The History of the Slinky
Mechanical engineer Richard James was trying to develop a new tension spring that could keep a ship’s equipment secure while the vessel rocked at sea. One day he accidentally knocked a spring off his worktable. The spring tumbled to the… Read More ›
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