Highlighters: To Use Or Not To Use

I love highlighting my books. I have a green Pilot FriXion highlighter that I usually keep tucked into whatever book I’m reading – if it’s non-fiction – to brighten up those key phrases that I want to mark for future reference.

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Artist Danny Quirk Uses Sharpies To Detail The Human Body

Danny Quirk Girls Back

Here’s a fascinating story about an artist who uses the human body as his canvas to create works of anatomical art in Sharpie and acrylic paint.

Danny Quirk said the project grew out of his frustration at being rejected from medical illustration programs. So, he began to illustrate the bodies of friends in eerie bright detail, exposing musculature, bone and organs to open view.

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Stabilo Com4 Ball Pen Review

Stabilo Com 4 Ball Black

On a grey wet morning I was disappointed to see yet another report on the news that handwriting is on its way out in the U.S. I recall reading back in 2011 that some states had dropped the need for cursive writing in favour of the keyboard. Here in the UK it appears that a recent study suggested a typical adult hadn’t written anything for 6 weeks.

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