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Category Archive: Life

Risk, reason, and referendum

This year’s US Presidential Election and the UK’s referendum on the EU will determine the world’s future. But the latter is not politics, it is serious.

June 11, 2016 General, Life, Technology

The unwitting irony of “scientific fact”

When someone asserts that something is scientific fact, they could unwittingly be lapsing into irony: it warns of imminent non-science.

June 9, 2016 General, Language, Life, Technology

More mapstakes

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When I drove down the drive I had seen on the satellite view, it opened out to a block of flats. The care home had vanished.

June 8, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The difficulty of proving who you are

How, on the internet, can you prove that you are who you say you are? Could ‘internet IDs’ solve the abuse problem?

May 31, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

First reclaim society, then the internet

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Was this story really about a two-year-old report? And how should we tackle the problem?

May 27, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Waterstones closes its eBook store, transfers to Kobo

Waterstones, the large UK chain of bookshops, has announced that it is to close its electronic book (eBook) […]

May 23, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

A Summer of Bosch – books and exhibitions for his 500th

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The pick of the exhibitions and books to help you celebrate Hieronymus Bosch’s 500th anniversary.

May 16, 2016 General, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Lovis Corinth’s Ariadne on Naxos

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A Richard Strauss opera, a classical Greek myth, and a painting. Do they tell the same story, and how?

May 3, 2016 General, Life, Painting

A personal language: Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s unique portraits

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His vegetable-rich portraits are unique in painting. Were they just jokes and whimsies, or is there something more substantial to them?

April 30, 2016 General, Life, Painting

Libraries have not been replaced by the internet

Online and print publications and other sources of information are usually complementary. The internet enriches, it does not replace.

April 29, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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