Gives you hope for your own old age – D-Day parachute jump: 89-year-old perfects Normandy landing (Telegraph). An 89-year-old D-Day veteran wound the clock back 70 years on Thursday by parachuting into the same field where he landed during the Normandy invasion. Jock Hutton, 89, said it was “no problem” to jump from 5,000 feet […]
A Limerick A Day (Broadsheet.ie): Let’s all be dismayed and aghast, At what happened back in the “dark past”, It may be the worst, But it isn’t the first, So for now let’s pretend it’s the last. John Moynes BBC: “The Tuam home was one of 10 institutions in which about 35,000 unmarried pregnant women […]
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” ― Mark Twain John Gormley, late of the Green Party leadership, wrote a prescient article in the Village magazine around this time last year. In it, he listed some rules and lessons he’d learned the hard way during the Green Party’s term in government that led to […]
This is delightful – “The distractions of social media, 1673 style” by Tom Standage: You know how you can easily lose track of time while checking Twitter and Facebook? And how people worry that social media is distracting people from doing real work (aka “social notworking”)? The same thing happened in the 17th century with […]
A vision of the future from a German magazine circa 1930 via Twitter / kathrynschulz.