The 2024 edition of Orgatec Cologne, Europe's, possibly the world's, largest trade fair for office furniture and office design is being staged under the banner "New Visions of Work". And as that 2024 edition, and its new visions, approaches a report is published in the International Journal of Epidemiology that should provide for some animated discussions at the event: Standing to work at a desk may not be as good for you as you may have been told. And could even be problematic. But there is
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Not the Situla itself. But rather what is depicted on that small, delicately carved, 10th century ivory object: the four Christian Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, busy writing their gospels while seated at height-adjustable desks....... La Situla del vescovo Gotofredo (photo Dominik Matus via commons.wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) .....or possibly, possibly, height-adjustable desks. As Bert S. Hall, to whom we will be eternally indebted for introducing us to the Situla,1 notes, the
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