Browsing Category TV / Technology
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Healthy Lifestyle 4
How I Have Come to Not Be Owned by Social Media
I was probably considered to be ‘late’ to social media, not having grown up with computers and being an adult when smart phones first started coming on the ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 20
Has the Plague Ever Truly Left Us?
The ‘Black Death’ or bubonic plague, as it was known – based on the boils or ‘buboes’ that formed and spread in the lymph nodes of its victims ...
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Communication 541
Mobile Phone, the Screen that Screams for Attention… Observation from a University Student
In the last couple of weeks I have found myself feeling quite surprised by the amount of time that mobile phones consume my – and many other of ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 339
Are all Children the Same: Do they all Need to be Parented the Same?
Having had three children, all very different in every single way, with absolutely no similarities even in their looks, it didn’t take me long to discover that what worked for one did not ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 574
Electricity Cut – Oh no, NO Technology!
This week, with plenty of warning, our whole suburb had the electricity cut for the entire day. For weeks now, during our daily dog walk, I have been ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 620
Television was my Religion
My relationship with TV started long ago when I was a child and it was only when I stopped watching TV that I realised how all consuming this ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 698
The Name of the Game is Distraction
One of the more recent crazes to hit the streets in the gaming world has been Pokémon Go. In the first week alone of its release, it soon ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 728
Social Media – Connections, Friendships, Relationships…
We live in a world where thanks to Internet and social media almost everybody seems to be electronically connected – one can even get in contact with their ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 528
TV – What is it Bringing Into our Homes?
Recently I had a very precious friend and her son stay with me for a couple of days. During their stay, all three of us went into town ...
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Communication 496
How a Smart Phone Brought Me Back to Connection — a Story on Selfies
Up until a few years ago, I was quite disinterested in technology, to put it mildly. When smartphones first came out, I still very much hung onto my ...