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For errors, it’s Judgement Day Writers often use the term, ‘eagle eyes’, to affectionately describe a colleague’s fierce attention to detail while proofreading and completing editorial quality checks. However, this may not be as complimentary as it initially seems. While eagles have approximately 10 times greater visual resolution than humans1, they would clearly suck at […]
Thought experiment series: famous writers of history PART 3 For our third thought experiment, we take a look at the work of this piercingly-eyed, well-dressed gentleman: Franz Kafka. His work, so surreal and macabre, led to the coining of the term ‘Kafkaesque’, defined as, ‘having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre or illogical quality’.1 As no strangers […]
Once upon a time, in the far-away years of the 1980s and 1990s, video games were regarded as a niche endeavour for elite-level nerds; proud owners of crumbs in their beards and mint condition still-sealed-in-their-boxes Star Wars action figures. But today, almost half the world’s entire population play video games at least once a week, […]