Category: Curiosity


TikTok – a force for good?

If TikTok were a person, they would almost certainly be the individual who spent too much time in the headmaster’s office being reprimanded. The ads, the underage users, the content, the privacy breaches, the cyber cruelty and the possible Chinese spying… it’s fair to say that the ByteDance-owned app has

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Want to stick it to the man? Get your boots on!

As you might already have gathered, I love to walk – to ramble in the countryside. To unplug and yet simultaneously reconnect. Putting on my walking boots and heading out into the countryside is not just how I choose to relax, but also a purposeful way to figure out problems

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The Light of Life

The below article which I found on Astrobiology is potentially mind-blowing. The development of an instrument that recognises living matter from a distance of 2 kilometers and at a velocity of 70 kph. I’ll let you deep dive into it, but at its core, the development of this new elaborate

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Poem: The Guy in the Glass

The Guy in the Glass by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934 When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf, And the world makes you King for a day, Then go to the mirror and look at yourself, And see what that guy has to say. For it isn’t

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Watch: two seats left… would you sit?

Whilst not wishing to be someone who has to read into everything to the nth degree, have a watch of this Carlsberg advert and take a moment to be a little bit curious about your own prejudices. Would you take the last two seats? A funny and thought provoking 2-minute

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Perspective: View of the World from 9th Avenue

This New Yorker cover, a 1976 illustration by Saul Steinberg that served as the cover of the March 29, 1976, edition of The New Yorker presents the view from Manhattan of the rest of the world showing Manhattan as the centre of the world. Described as a tongue-in-cheek view of the

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