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How the micronation became a state: What started as a Maunsell Sea Fort named Roughs Tower in the south eastern coast of the UK to protect from a potential Nazi invasion was declared the sovereign state of Sealand by pirate radio broadcaster Roy Bates in 1967 when he ejected the former tenants, Wonderful Radio London, […]
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Posted inWATCH THIS
Seeing a three Michelin Star sushi chef in action
A soul-shattering sushi experience: Takashi Saito is a three Michelin Star sushi chef running Sushi Saito, a restaurant regarded one the best in Japan. Food and travel bloggers Simon and Martina Stawski spent a day with Saito from early in the morning when he picks the fresh fish himself from the Tsukiji Market to him […]
Posted inREAD THIS
Apps can help your kids learn, but nothing beats a human touch
Apps can help your kids learn, but nothing beats a human touch: Don’t be fooled by how easily your toddler manages to unlock your phone and make a long-distance call when you’re not looking: Using screens (such as tablets) to teach kids certain skills and encourage brain development can be useful, but you would really […]
Posted inListen to This
M-Pesa’s role in the modern economy
We’re big fans of mobile payments system M-Pesa, and believe it holds great promise for the largely unbanked population in Egypt. Tim Harford presented M-Pesa as one of the 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy, his BBC-produced radio show. Harford tracks how M-Pesa started in Kenya, where Kenyans used it to “reinvent money itself,” […]
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Moral dilemma in badminton match
The most paradoxical and upside down badminton match of all time: At the 2012 London Olympics, women's badminton doubles teams from China and Korea wanted to avoid playing the world champions in the knockout stages. So in the last match of their group stages, both guaranteed to progress, the teams played and competed to lose, […]
Posted inSOMEONE TO FOLLOW
French gain legal right to switch off from work emails when off the clock
The French can now legally ignore work emails during off hours: France has voted in favor of new legislation that “obliges organisations with more than 50 workers to start negotiations to define the rights of employees to ignore their smartphones,” according to the Agence France-Presse. Labor minister Myriam El Khomri had introduced the bill as […]
Posted inSOMETHING THAT MADE US THINK
The Guggenheim’s first robotic artwork challenges the place of the machine in humanity’s narrative
The Guggenheim’s first robotic artwork: The Guggenheim Museum’s first robotic artwork is an enormous arm “brandishing a giant squeegee, is poised over a pool of dark liquid which ceaselessly oozes outwards. With quick, smooth, aggressive movements, the machine performs a calculated dance, pivoting and dragging its squeegee across the surface in a perpetual labor of […]
Posted inHEALTH
Maintaining friendships could make the difference between life and death for the elderly
We all know the importance of a handful of deep, meaningful friendships, but in old age, they could make the difference between life and death, Laura Span writes for the New York Times. Recent research findings tell us that social isolation among the elderly often translates into a lack of attention that leads to forgetting […]
Posted inTech
Non-tech companies have become more aggressive
The stakes of disruption are too high: Companies that are generally unaffiliated with the tech industry made more than USD 125 bn worth of acquisitions in 2016, up from USD 20 bn five years ago, writes Leslie Picker for the New York Times. Most of them found that building tech in-house was “painstaking” and could […]
Posted inBEYOND THE RUBICON
Aly El Shalakany’s Beyond the Rubicon column is on hiatus this week for the New Year’s break.