Risher's column about an old rotary phone and old phone exchanges. Seventy years later, I still remember by best friend's ...

A clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone for those dealing with death and loss ...

It started with a disconnected phone in a Japanese garden. Now there are hundreds of "wind phones" in the world, including ...

People use the wind phone to “call” and have a one-way conversation with deceased loved ones. Here they can say the things ...

And in that gazebo, in a wooden box, there is a tan rotary phone ... likely was a working office phone, before it was replaced by generations of touch tone phones, cordless phones, cellphones.

At its simplest, a wind phone is a rotary or push-button phone located ... Here they can say the things left unsaid. Wind phones offer a setting for the person to tell the story of their grief ...

And even if they are, they don’t require a rotary phone hooked up to nothing. But those who believe in wind phones say there is something to having this physical device as a tool. And for those ...

The first new major museum in Melbourne for more than two decades is all about the tech that's helped humanity interact.

(THE CONVERSATION) My mother died in my home in hospice in 2020, on the day my state of Washington went into COVID-19 lockdown. Her body was taken away, but none of the usual touchstones for grief ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Taryn Lindhorst, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) My mother died in my ...