Category Archives: Current Affairs
Museum exhibit is just poop
Warning: Don’t read this when you are about to eat your lunch!
Read more...Wearable technology
Once upon a time wearable technology was pure Hollywood fiction…
Read more...Fishing around for a good World Cup story
You don’t need to love the football to enjoy the World Cup, there’s so much other great stuff surrounding this sporting event.
Read more...Please don’t replace our museums
I love and embrace technology as much as the next person, but there is a time and a place isn’t there?
Read more...Make way for the dark night diet
I have been struggling recently to get my bedroom dark enough, so I was interested to see an article this week about how we have too much light in our bedrooms.
Read more...From geek to influencer: How a teenage girl became a literary sensation
What do you picture of when you think of the 1950s?
Read more...Will selfies take over the world?
Since selfie was named as Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries, this phenomenon seems to be slowly taking over the world. There is not a day goes by when I don’t see a selfie story in the news, from David Cameron posing for one in a well known restaurant with other diners, to the millions of women posing for #nomakeupselfies on social media to raise money and awareness for Cancer Research.
Read more...The ultimate game of hide and seek
It’s absolutely mind blowing to think that we are still discovering new species on this planet. The International Institute for Species Exploration (IISE) has just issued its list of the Top 10 New Species from the past 12 months, and it makes riveting reading. What has to be the cutest and most amazing find is the new mammal named an olinguito. This is the first new carnivorous mammal described in the Western Hemisphere in 35 years.
Read more...Take part in a £10 million challenge
I love the idea of the Longitude Prize 2014 – it’s like an X Factor for science.
Read more...We’re proud to be British – kind of
We live in a nation of a stiff-upper-lipped, self-deprecating and underwhelmed society who are rather proud to be British, but who would rather not shout it from the rooftops.
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