Follow The Oikofuge: Writing, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/the-oikofuge-writing Fri, 22 Sep 2023 03:44:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH42sGk81fO-bN Brent Huckabee: Welcome back. We’re now joined by child psychologist Doctor Marietta van den Polt, who’s been at the centre of today’s unfolding story. Marietta, thanks for joining us. You were involved in the identification of the many families who were the subject of the mass social-work intervention this morning, is that correct? Marietta van … Continue reading Christmas News From A Parallel Universe →]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH42sGk81fO-bN https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH4-QEmsPXZ5C9 A short post this week, but with the potential for more reading than usual. Last summer, an invitation arrived out of the blue from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, to make a contribution to their magazine, The Geographer. They wanted me to write about the Sidlaw Hills, for an issue devoted to the River Tay. … Continue reading Secretive Sidlaws →]]> Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:00:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH4-QEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH4wVLTsI7B9NX Right, this is a little odd. I’m not actually going to review this one. It comes up purely in the context of something I found on my hard drive that I’d completely forgotten about. First, a bit of background. Muriel Gray had been around as a TV presenter and columnist for quite a while when … Continue reading Muriel Gray: The First Fifty →]]> Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:00:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH4wVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH41hGNgNo2_0q For the last few months I’ve been cutting a dash on the hills wearing the wrap-round headset pictured above. It’s the core component of the new Virtua-Trekker—the first application of Virtual Reality for the hill-walker or fell-runner—and the nice people at Bolt-On™ Cybernetics have been kind enough to give me an early prototype to review. … Continue reading Gear Review: Bolt-On™ Virtua-Trekker →]]> Sat, 01 Apr 2017 02:01:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH41hGNgNo2_0q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH4-Gkz6RCC25z An article by Tom Whipple in The Times today (May 12, 2016) reports on a set of powered trousers designed by Panizollo et al. and described in an article published today by the Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation: “A biologically-inspired multi-joint soft exosuit that can reduce the energy cost of loaded walking“. The authors conclude: … Continue reading Life Imitates Art →]]> Thu, 12 May 2016 16:42:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH4-Gkz6RCC25z https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH40Gb1Jh49AJn A MESSAGE TO OUR READERS Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. Attributed to Oscar Wilde (but then again, what isn’t) If you’ve arrived here from the Twitter posts of @BigglesFrca, then you’re very welcome. I’d just like you to note that I am very much not that person … Continue reading Biggles FRCA →]]> Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:45:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH40Gb1Jh49AJn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH4-ifqJurszLU When I was a solitary, bespectacled and distinctly oikotropic child growing up in Dundee, I seemed to be the only person in my class who brightened up when our English homework assignment was an essay. I liked writing. The first time I actually (sort of) sold a bit of writing was in 1977. Punch magazine, … Continue reading Writing: Introduction →]]> Fri, 27 Nov 2015 16:19:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2i13lP7mqFb7eofjeWMH4-ifqJurszLU