Senses working overtime #328

1 Tokyo Olympics - every sport!

2 Questions for technology - Austin Kleon

3 Time dilation - Seth Godin

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

4 Jimmy Connors

How Jimmy Connors won a point by launching his racket in the air in 1996. What a freak that guy was - certainly miss his OTT celebrations (courtesy of Swiss Miss).

5 Delta - how the pandemic now ends

Photo by Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash

In simple terms, many people who caught the original virus didn’t pass it to anyone, but most people who catch Delta create clusters of infection. That partly explains why cases have risen so explosively. It also means that the virus will almost certainly be a permanent part of our lives, even as vaccines blunt its ability to cause death and severe disease.

Overtime: 

Author and journalist Mitch Albom on time:

"Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out."

(Courtesy of James Clear)