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While there's no official word from NASA on this, the buzz around the blogosphere is that Voyager 1 has left the Solar System. The evidence comes from this graph, above, which shows the number of particles, ...
A bit of reverse engineering goes a long way
I want to take a moment to talk about one of the greatest user interface disasters in history: the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the U.S. Navy missile cruiser USS Vincennes (CG-49) over the Persian Gulf on July 3, 1988. All 290 people on board the airliner were killed.
Ivan Illich’s radical critique of our modern certitudes resonates loudly amid today’s crises.
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Interviewer Uta Blohm
Martin miller
Martin Miller is the son of Alice Miller and is also a psychotherapist; he was born in and still lives in Zürich. He has written a biography of his mother’s life, – The True ‘Drama of the Gifted Child.’ (2013) – which so far has only been published in German. To make some of the content accessible to the English-speaking world, we have interviewed the author. The following is an abridged version of the translated interview.
I’ve told Bess that, given the current circumstances, my job is easier than hers: all I have to do is die. She has the hard part; she has to live and figure out how to go on. Death’s severing…
