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Category Archive: Life

A painter’s changing streets: cycles and cars

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Manet’s remarkably early painting of a cyclist dates from 1871, but the Impressionists appear to have ignored the new kings of the road.

June 27, 2016 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Making sense of the referendum

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We have looked in the shop window, and want to find out more about leaving the EU. We now need to explore how that might work, before making an Article 50 decision.

June 27, 2016 General, Life

Rewind, undo, and buyer’s remorse

Expressions of regret and a desire to change your vote are very unusual immediately after an election. Why Bregret?

June 26, 2016 General, Life, Technology

A personal apology

We should have taken heed of the Boaty McBoatface incident. Does the UK really want to leave Europe?

June 25, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Truth: the worst casualty of political campaigns

The UK’s referendum has been transformed by its campaigns into a propagandum in which truth has been lost. What is the solution?

June 23, 2016 General, Language, Life, Technology

Words or movies for telling stories

Is video “the best way to tell stories”? Is live-streaming the way ahead for social media? Or is this just marketing hype?

June 21, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Summerfest 2016: the Summer Artisanal Software Festival

A summer sale of finely crafted tools for writers, thinkers, and many others.

June 19, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

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

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