Browsing Category TV / Technology
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Communication 571
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 359
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
Consumed by False Lights – Entertainment & the Electrical Discharge Insect Control System
In 1911, two anonymous men invented a contraption that used light to attract insects. When the insects made their way over to the light, drawn in by its ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 619
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 656
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 744
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 755
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 545
Technology: Are you Connected?
The advances in technology, particularly communications technology, have certainly been a blessing and oh how our lives have changed! I remember as a child in primary school, the ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 546
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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Healthy Lifestyle 753
Socially Accepted Addictions: What’s Really Going on?
What’s really going on for us when we become addicted to something? I’m not just talking about addiction to drugs, I’m talking about those subtle addictions that go ...