Do you spend a lot of time at a desk or behind a computer? Check out this excellent pdf poster from The Washington Post, and it’ll help you think about some uncomfortable habits. The health hazards of sitting
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85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world
That’s a shocking fact. The timing of that headline is appropriate as the rich gather to enjoy the luxuries that Davos, in the Swiss Alps, has to offer the World Economic Forum. Anyone reading this is unlikely to be one of those 85 people, but you are definitely in the top 10%. And everyone at …
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The work climate, like the weather, is changing .
The world is changing. Not just volatile weather – snow in Florida, tempest in Ireland – but in the socio-economic dynamic that has borne humanity to this position in civilisation. We are running out of jobs. Technology is taking over all employment, except the lowest paid, menial tasks and the highest paid, bespoke services. Even …
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We are still not prepared to pay for our planet.
In the past decade there has certainly been a huge increase in awareness and care about sustaining nature in the face of overconsumption by humanity. Now, most people have heard the terms “sustainable”, “organic”, “eco”, “green” and associate positive initiatives with these terms. Sadly we also associate a cost with these terms, a cost we …
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Lions: And then there were none …
Sadly lions are becoming extinct. You might think that Simba and friends are still roaming the African savanah, but like many large mammals they have been hunted to minimal populations and their habitat decimated by human encroachment. It was inevitable, given the gross overconsumption of nature by humanity, and we might not really care because …
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When glacial melting becomes irreversible.
When glacial melting becomes irreversible it’s not good, and it’s happening now. Three teams that have modelled behaviour of Antarctica’s mighty Pine Island Glacier (PIG) tell the journal Nature Climate Change that, even if the region were to experience much colder conditions, its retreat would continue. The glacier is a colossal feature, covering more than …
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Euthanasia’s time is coming.
Death is an unknown and that makes it easy to fear it. Although it is a natural part of the cycle of life, western culture tends to ignore it and treat it as an unfamiliar phenomenon requiring dark rituals. That approach contrasts starkly with the advanced technology we play with every day and the deep …
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Ibuprofen reduces memory loss.
A recent discovery by researchers at the Louisiana University Health Sciences Center has found a way to stop the memory loss side effect of THC based drugs used in cancer treatment, whose use has been cautious owing to neuronal and memory impairments. Lead investigator Chu Chen said that if patients concurrently take a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory …
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Solstice sunrise after a storm.
The thunder rolled and the rain poured in the pre-dawn darkness. At 8 o’clock the sky began to clear and the light broke through. The sky was divided in two. On one side ominous clouds passing away; on the other the sky filled with the bright light of dawn. The moon looked on.
Printer problems … fixed.
After cleaning print head and deep cleaning print heads and still not getting a decent print out, I came across this site PrinterKnowledge, started by Rob Ludlow’s nifty-stuff.com, which helped understand the nature of the problem. (Anatomy of a Canon print head helped a lot – see photo below.) It was the print head, but …
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