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Hidden in plain sight

For many people, it is now difficult to let 24 hours pass without either sending or receiving an email, using some form of social media or managing finances and other matters online. Behind the seductive comfort of all this are data centres which store the text, pictures and information.   […]

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Dreams and nightmares

The word ‘energy’ comes from the ancient Greek noun ‘ergon’, meaning work, and in English ‘work’ can be a noun or a verb; hence the words energy and energise.   Sean Sheehan   No surprise, then, to find more than one meaning in the title of Michael Marder’s book, “Energy […]