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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 […]

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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 […]