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Walking

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Walk, don't run The writer recently came across an interesting YouTube presentation on the dynamics of walking and how it affects every part of the body in a positive way. In fact, it is one of the core actions of human beings alongside breathing, eating and sleeping. The presentation is as follows: Walking is the only exercise your body was designed for , The Feynman Way , 14 March 2026, YouTube, duration: 28.01 minutes. Another presentation from around the same time offered a similar analysis of the importance of walking, outside of the familiar exercise paradigm. The truth about how much you should be walking , the mindbodygreen podcast , 3 May 2026, YouTube, duration: 41.12 minutes. Both these videos are revelatory. Why? Because, like the issue of eating eggs, the public message in recent years around walking has been mixed. The writer had recently seen a YouTube video by a medical physician - real or AI??? - which spoke of the dangers of walking. .... However...

Archives - looking back at being an Archivist 1986 / 2026

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Archives : Archives on the Net | Archiving memory | Business & Labour archiving | Class of '86 | Ephemera In Archives | Grant publication mandates | Looking back... | Heaven, Hell & Canberra | Utopian Cinema - Metropolis | Saving the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia | Streaming the Archive | Surfing the Internet | Contents Introduction Politics & legislation Schellenberg 1954 References -------------- 1. Introduction When, at the end of November 1986, the present writer finished the one-year full-time Postgraduate Diploma in Information Management (Archives Administration) course at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, he walked out feeling like an archivist, ready to take on the task professionally. That feeling has continued to the present day and will be with him to the grave. Such was the influence not only of those presenting the course - Pete Orlovich, Anne Pederson and assistants ...