She makes it look so easy. Shutterstock. Dave Cook, UCL The phrase “digital nomad” summons the trope of joyful millennials who escape the daily grind to travel the world, working with laptops on far flung beaches. Bullish statistics are regularly regurgitated: “There...
Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation Photos of beautiful landscapes may be lovely while you look at them but it’s the photos of fellow Homo sapiens that you’ll remember long after the album has gone back on the shelf, a 2011 study has found. Neuroscientists from MIT in...
Westminster Abbey doesn’t want you to take any selfies. Jay Zagorsky, Author provided Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University Have you ever pulled out your camera or phone in a museum or historic place and suddenly found a staff person telling you “no photographs”?...
Some selfies are more dangerous than others… ‘Selfie’ via www.shutterstock.com Michael Weigold, University of Florida In May, an Indian man was killed while trying to take a selfie next to a wounded bear. It’s actually the third selfie-related death in...
Cleverly doctored images of the effects of Sydney’s April storms amused social media users – but hoax images have a much longer history. Todd Lopez/@Creative_Order Phillip George, UNSW A detail from Giorgio Vasari’s 1563 fresco, The Studio of the Painter – which...
