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12 Practical Uses Of GPS For Everyday People ... But the reality is that there are far more applications of Global Positioning Systems beyond GPS vehicle tracking or map navigation that everyday people like us can benefit from...

Child Development With The Use Of Everyday Toys ... Kids not yet in school and beginning school ager's will pretend a game called house to figure out how to react to situations they aren't sure of that they may go through in the real world, such as visiting the doctor or when they are afraid. When a child absorbs interesting things about dinosaurs, they will use toy cubes and other toys trying to recreate the environment the dinosaurs lived in...

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)

Although the same exemplary figures are found in both and equally miraculous events occur in both, there is a crucial difference in the way these are communicated. Put simply, the dominant feeling a myth conveys is: this is absolutely unique; it could not have happened to any other person, or in any other setting; such events are grandiose, awe-inspiring, and could not possibly happen to an ordinary mortal like you or me. The reason is not so much that what takes place is miraculous, but that it is described as such. By contrast, although the events which occur in fairy tales are often unusual and most improbable, they are always presented as ordinary, something that could happen to you or me or the person next door when out on a walk in the woods. Even the most remarkable encounters are related in casual, everyday ways in fairy tales.
—Bruno Bettelheim (1903–1990)

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)