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Archive for a Fragile Island

Local artist Rob French shares extracts from a larger project, Archive for a Fragile Island. The artworks explore four locations around the coastline of Portsea Island. Together, they aim to form an archive of a shifting, unstable, and fragile place.

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Meet the new Ebook Central Reader app

The new Ebook Central Reader app arrives on Wednesday 23 July, offering seamless, secure and responsive ebook reading from any device. Here's everything you need to know to set it up to read your Ebook Central ebooks without interruption.

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Google's hidden databases

Google has been hiding things from you. Good things, no less! Whether you want to find public information about the political constitutions of the world brought together or look for images that share a colour, shape or vague similarity to an image or art style you have found, Google's hidden databases are a cornucopia of forgotten knowledge.

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Stretch for success

It has been said that "Sitting is the new smoking" because it has been associated with a host of long-term health problems. Unlike smoking, authorities have been telling you to sit still all your life, even when you wanted naturally to wriggle and move when you were a small child in school, learning the habits that were expected of you in the modern workplace. Happily, there are ways to wake the body and stimulate the circulation without even getting up.

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