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Soil is ground-up rock (minerals) combined with organic matter, water and air. As far as we know it is unique to planet Earth and typically extends just a few metres beneath the surface. In ancient Greek chthōn is soil; autós is self.

I’m updating my entry of 14 May 2014: 


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In May 2014 I published an online article (blog post), the contents of which were expanded in my book Network Nature: The Place of Nature in the Digital Age (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). The title of the online article was “


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Looking back at my “Newsletter” entries of 2014, I saw an article on music, Music makes it better #190, followed by


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I’m presenting an update to my reflections of April 2014 that I titled Life-changing technologies #189. That entry was an update on a report we wrote in the 1990s based on interviews with architectural practitioners. Now we ...


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Why had Australia banned mobile phones in schools? The ban was to reduce classroom distractions, improve academic concentration, and curb cyberbullying. That summary is from a Google search on my opening question, which demonstrates a further challenge to learning posed by instant in-hand access to AI-enabled Internet search.

Such search-based shortcuts to...


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