I spend hundreds of hours each year running, working, commuting and “getting stuff done” with podcasts. I thought that this was something new, it isn’t…
“Thus arose the tradition of lectors, who sat perched on an elevated platform in the cigar factory, reading to the workers. It started in Cuba and was brought to the United States more particularly to Key West in 1865 when thousands of Cuban cigar workers emigrated to Florida to escape Spanish oppression.”
A lot of what happens on the internet is criticised as having no impact and being just plain narcissism. Well…
“Dismissed by some at the time as “slacktivism” – an exercise that appears to do good while achieving very little – the ice bucket challenge raised more than $115m (£88m) for motor neurone disease in a single month. Now, scientists funded with the proceeds have discovered a gene variant associated with the condition.”
How the ice bucket challenge led to an ALS research breakthrough