Category: Found objects
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App review: Obsidian
I have been using Obsidian for well over a year now. It is my go-to tool for knowledge building and synthesising information. Five stars. Obsidian is a simple text-based information management system. It uses markdown language (basically a shorthand way of formatting your text) to build and organise personal notes. It also allows you to…
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Beyond words.
The proper response to this realisation is not argument, but awe. To be human, in my view, is to feel a deep gravitational pull towards something ineffable, that, if we can just for once get beyond words and reasons, is a matter of experience, and to which we reach out, silently, though not without misgivings;…
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Book review: the matter with things.
You are probably familiar with the idea that the two sides of our brains are responsible for different functions of our personality. For example, that our left hemisphere is more analytical, maths-oriented, more reasoning and ordered, whilst the right side is more creative, artistic, intuitive. Well this popular idea that our personalities are more dominated…
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Music: Jacob Collier
Take a quiet break to check out this musical offering. Jacob Coller is a young (28yrs) singer-songwriter out of London. His music has a heavy jazz influence but he cross-pollinates from many other music genres. A video of him performing the Bee Gees song ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ fell into my YouTube stream (link…
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Do you know the international hand signal for: ‘help me’?
I just found out about this today. Originally launched by the Canadian Women’s Foundation last year as an emergency signal for girls and women in abusive situations to covertly express their need for help whilst on video calls. The signal is useful in that it only requires one hand and can be flashed discretely and…
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Is there something inside a fish other than fillets?
This article published in Aeon looks at the question of sentience in fish. In me at least, when I really stop and think about it, this raises a creeping feeling of unease. There is definitely an increasing body of evidence that challenges our sapien-centric claim to being the consciousness boss of things around here. If…
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Movie: Dominion
It’s OK, you do not have to watch this movie. I give this 4.5 stars out of five. But you probably won’t want to watch it. It contains explicit scenes of animal cruelty and is morally confronting. The film covers common, routine practices that are a part of the commercial food chain that puts bacon,…
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