"A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step" --Chinese philosopher Laozi. Likewise epics can be built out of tiny scribblings. In early 2012, I wandered Europe writing posts on what I found interesting for friends. By the end I had written the equivalent of a 1000-page book. My readers had journeyed with me and so did not ask: "how was it?" Instead we discussed what it meant. I continue scribbling. Mastodon
When Mount Stromlo Observatory was destroyed during the 2003 ACT bushfires, parts of the 79-year-old Yale Columbia Refractor telescope was salvaged. They were used by Tim Wetherell to create this heroic sculpture of The Astronomer that stands outside the National Science & Technology Centre Pity the birds also like it as a roost.
Jean M. Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University is responsible for this (not so outlandish) thesis. She has authored two books Generation Me and iGen but her condensed article that covers the smartphone is in a 2017 Atlantic article.
It has lots of interesting points but the most important is that there was an abrupt change in teen behaviour around 2012 when, for the first time, the majority of US teens had a smartphone. Suicide rates doubled, depression was found to correlate with screentime.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/
Protestors in the Capital. Now the horned man, Jacob Chansley says he’s coming to terms with events leading to the riot and asked people to ...
