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Win back your attention by turning your screen gray 📱⬜👀

Wells BaumJanuary 15, 2018August 24, 2021
by Wells BaumJanuary 15, 2018August 24, 20213
The variety of colors on our smartphone screens pop like candy. As advertiser Bruce Barton wrote in his 1925 book In The Man Nobody Knows,...
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Social media companies as old storefronts

Wells BaumJanuary 14, 2018September 30, 2021
by Wells BaumJanuary 14, 2018September 30, 20212
If Facebook’s recent newsfeed changes are any sign, social media is in decay. It’s gone from connecting people to Buzzfeed’s linkbait to a nest of...
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Your vocation chooses you

Wells BaumJanuary 14, 2018September 30, 2021
by Wells BaumJanuary 14, 2018September 30, 20211
We all start out with a dream, a goal of someone or something we want to emulate. We keep that dream close, putting up bedroom posters...
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Are we living in a computer simulation?

Wells BaumJanuary 10, 2018January 1, 2021
by Wells BaumJanuary 10, 2018January 1, 20212
Perhaps what we see isn’t what we get. Instead, life is just computer code and humans are information. So does a simulated life mean that...
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The London Milkman

Wells BaumJanuary 9, 2018December 15, 2021
by Wells BaumJanuary 9, 2018December 15, 20214
Photographer Fred Morley staged the famous photo of a milkman walking through the destruction of London after the German blitz during the Second World War....
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Signalling anonymity

Wells BaumJanuary 6, 2018January 10, 2022
by Wells BaumJanuary 6, 2018January 10, 20220
Your face and clothing signal your identity. Your DNA is one thing, your outer design another; fashion is the only element you can control. A...
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Fire Opal

Wells BaumJanuary 5, 2018May 14, 2020
by Wells BaumJanuary 5, 2018May 14, 20203
Fire Opal is a variety of opal that has a bright yellow, bright orange or bright red background color. The stones in the first photo...
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Pythagoras: ‘Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.’

Wells BaumJanuary 4, 2018August 8, 2020
by Wells BaumJanuary 4, 2018August 8, 20201
“Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.” Pythagoras...
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The Population Bomb

Wells BaumJanuary 4, 2018September 30, 2021
by Wells BaumJanuary 4, 2018September 30, 20215
In 1968, Doctor Paul Ehrlich warned the world of its excessive population with his book entitled The Population Bomb (Amazon). “The battle to feed all of...
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We shape Earth. It shapes us.

Wells BaumJanuary 3, 2018May 14, 2020
by Wells BaumJanuary 3, 2018May 14, 20202
We shape the Earth, and it shapes us. For all the pieces interact, transforming into a cohesive thought. The trees grow in cities, the oceans meet...
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Processing “reality” through the camera lens 📷

Wells BaumJanuary 2, 2018September 30, 2021
by Wells BaumJanuary 2, 2018September 30, 20211
We must look at our surroundings with a keen eye otherwise every day just becomes transactional in nature. Writes Susan Sontag in On Photography: “Ultimately,...
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Why write by hand ✍

Wells BaumJanuary 1, 2018September 30, 2021
by Wells BaumJanuary 1, 2018September 30, 20210
“Ah, what technology has brought us! First the typewriter, then the word processor, next the computer, now voice-recognition computers, and laptops that weigh less than...
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