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@TreadmillDesker Hmmm. I couldn't find a comparison of standing v walking. I do not need to lose weight, so that is not a benefit for me
@nancybaym Perhaps I can send you galley as PDF... but I don't have it yet...
@GarrettGoodman Thanks -- will take a look.
Yesterday's shocking murder in Woolwich harks back to the 19th-century anarchist idea of "the propaganda of the deed" economist.com/news/britain/2…
Return to old-style terror
economist.com — AN ACT of terrorism does not have to result in large-scale death and maiming to be profoundly shocking and therefore to achieve its aims. The appalling daylight murder of an off-duty soldier on May 22nd in a quiet suburban street in south-east London was in some ways a throwback to an earlier era.
@nancybaym Thank you. When's your deadline for your 2nd ed? My book is not out until October
@nancybaym Exactly. And realtime translation is getting pretty good. It's another form of friction (like info lookup) that could soon vanish
@nancybaym I think of how long photographic processing, music recording used to take, and wish I'd had today's tech in my youth
@nancybaym And then I wonder what modern-day annoyances will be banished by technology in future. Inability to speak foreign languages, eg
@nancybaym On the contrary, I remember those days, and wish I'd had the internet (and other gadgets like digital cameras) back then
@dgwbirch I love the 1911. A snapshot of the Victorian mindset, but with cracks (eg, nebulae assumed to be gas clouds, not galaxies) visible
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