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Give yourself a break from multi-tasking

Posted on January 11, 2012 9:31 am by Jonathan Still
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Just try it. Give this podcast from Headspace about the healthy use of technology 15 minutes of your time. Pause to reflect on the way you use technology, and the extent to which switching between one window and another, between … Continue reading →

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A darker shade of chocolate: Green and Black’s and Ben Goldacre

Posted on September 6, 2011 9:50 am by Jonathan Still
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If like me you’re a bit overwhelmed by the ubiquity of Green & Black’s chocolate, you might be interested to see this broadside from its founder Craig Sams against Bad Science good-guy Ben Goldacre. Read about it on Ben’s website … Continue reading →

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All hail the Anti-PowerPoint Party

Posted on July 7, 2011 7:15 am by Jonathan Still
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Friends & readers of this blog will know how much I detest PowerPoint, or rather the mis-use of it. I can’t say that I thought it was only a matter of time before a political party with a mission to … Continue reading →

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This time, Slovenia: A geography lesson for Telegraph readers

Posted on June 17, 2011 1:54 pm by Jonathan Still
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‘Working class pupils ‘perform better in Slovenia than in UK‘ is the headline of  an astonishingly crass article in today’s Telegraph.  I can’t be bothered to regurgitate all the reasons it’s stupid, since I already had to do this last … Continue reading →

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Another group hit by library closures: the U3A

Posted on June 16, 2011 10:38 am by Jonathan Still
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  Education: The Age of Uncertainty is an impassioned but factual article in today’s Independent about the effect that library closures are having on the elderly, and in particular on members of the University of the Third Age (U3A). Ian … Continue reading →

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Argos? What about the library?

Posted on June 13, 2011 11:49 pm by Jonathan Still
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I’d no sooner pressed send on the previous post about the wonder of libraries, than I happened to see a ‘heartwarming’ story in  today’s Evening Standard about a 7-year old  girl who came home to find £500 worth of brand new … Continue reading →

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