Tag Archives: Philosophy

A Personalised Interactive Infographic About Your Life from the BBC

It’s no secret that I adore infographics. Even better are infographics or interactive media that has a personal angle. This enables the user to better relate to and absorb the information in a meaningful way. This interactive infographic from the BBC certainly does add a new dimension to the data. It’s a clever combination ofContinue reading “A Personalised Interactive Infographic About Your Life from the BBC”

Objects With A Story. Object 1: The Tiny Book

I found this tiny old leatherbound book in the home of a woman I was looking after in Wales about six years ago. I liked looking after the woman and living in her ancient thatch-roofed house in the middle of nowhere. The serenity was perfect. And yet precisely because it was so serene, I gotContinue reading “Objects With A Story. Object 1: The Tiny Book”

Join me for an operatic journey at the speed of light

If you’re like me and tend to gaze up at the night sky and wonder about life and the meaning of it all then you can’t help but be swept up in the events of the past few weeks. NASA estimates that 1 billion earth-like planets in our galaxy alone NASA New Horizons Crew findContinue reading “Join me for an operatic journey at the speed of light”

What The Heck is Electronic Mail? Asks Ad From 1977

Global technology company Honeywell is still alive and kicking in 2015 but in 1977 the idea of electronic mail was certainly novel and almost unfathomable. It’s so fascinating to see how previous decades, what’s unimaginable in our daily lives becomes commonplace. And everyday objects that were commonplace fade to black and become pieces of quaintContinue reading “What The Heck is Electronic Mail? Asks Ad From 1977”

Philosophical Friday: The Pleasure of Being a Homebody

This poster is absolutely priceless, I found it on Reddit.  While there’s much to be said for going on an epic journey into the unknown, or gearing up for a massive weekend festival, we are often champing at the bit when we see a line-up for a festival. Yet the reality is, we end upContinue reading “Philosophical Friday: The Pleasure of Being a Homebody”

Technobiophilia and why our digital lives don’t need to be frantic

According to Author Sue Thomas who wrote the book Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace there’s an intimate relationship between the language we use online: clouds, rivers, streams, viruses, and bugs and the way that we use our devices to reconnect with nature. According to Thomas, technobiophilia is the ‘innate attraction to life and lifelike processes as they appearContinue reading “Technobiophilia and why our digital lives don’t need to be frantic”

Eclipse Hunting For Star-gazing Dreamers

A solar eclipse is an awe-inspiring phenomenon that visits earth only once every couple of years or even decades. Ever since ancient times, humans have been fascinated, fearful and reverent of eclipses. Myth and the Solar Eclipse Ancient Greeks, Mesopotamians and Egyptians were the first to record solar eclipses. In 585 BC, Herodotus wrote ‘DayContinue reading “Eclipse Hunting For Star-gazing Dreamers”

On embracing restlessness

One of the dumbest things you can do is sit in one space and let the world pass you by. — Bob Propst, inventor of the office cubicle. It’s important to not be boxed in, for all its literal and metaphorical senses. We need to be careful that we aren’t going to work in aContinue reading “On embracing restlessness”

Tangible Things: How Do Cultures Measure the Past?

Tangible Things is a fascinating MOOC by Harvard University about material culture. Now finished, you can still cruise through the videos. You will be taken on a journey into the living, breathing history of material objects. Sound boring? It’s anything but! It may well change the way that you view mundane things like chairs, rocks andContinue reading “Tangible Things: How Do Cultures Measure the Past?”