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Retired from University of California, IT, business, teaching, and library.
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The short bursts of activity that could help you live longer
From running up stairs, to rigorous gardening: these everyday activities could boost your health and help you live longer.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Why travellers keep queueing for viral food
Experts explain how FOMO, social proof and performance culture have turned ordinary snacks into global must-queue experiences.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Why humans enjoy a good feast together
For thousands of years, humans have come together in small groups to feast on food. Why is it important – and why do we still continue the tradition?
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November 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Indian study finds music helps patients heal under anaesthesia
A new study finds patients who listen to music during surgery wake faster and need fewer painkillers.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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David Foster Wallace Tried to Warn Us About these Eight Things
This author, who committed suicide in 2008, is more timely now than ever before—for the worst possible reasons.
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September 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Why 'best time to visit' no longer applies
Climate change is rewriting the rulebook for trip planning – and travellers need to adapt.
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August 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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8 ways to travel more sustainably in 2025
From eco-tourism and Indigenous-led tours to low-impact journeys and mindful accommodation, these are some of the practical ways people are making travel more responsible this year.
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May 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark?

From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.

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What Happens if the Internet Archive Goes Dark? | KQED
For decades, the Internet Archive has preserved our digital history. Lately, journalists and ordinary citizens have been turning to it more than ever, as the Trump administration undertakes an ideolog...
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March 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Ozymandias
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
March 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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This takes a minute to absorb.
March 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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STAR TREK - a dialogue approach
The first page of an article from the July-August issue of Recreational Computing, laying out an approach by which a Star Trek adventure might be approximated through English dialogue instead of screens of the usual grids. In the bottom right, a still from "Star Trek - The Motion Picture" is displayed.
March 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾

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Logo for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, with Wayback in red and Machine in black.
March 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Why forgetting is beneficial
Imperfect memory and false recollections are essential elements of a flexible mind, argues neuroscientist Charan Ranganath in a new book. David Robson asks him why.
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January 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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