

Valuable eyewitness accounts and raw data on human behavior, as well as a habitat for trolls What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security threats and vulnerabilities, a wildfire watcher who tracks the spread of...
What the world would lose with the demise of Twitter

Entrepreneurs are more altruistic than ever
But how can we help them make good on their ambitions? Young and old people have different opinions and tastes on everything from fashion to politics. That might sound truistic, but it really matters if we’re trying to work out what the future might look like when...
Entrepreneurs are more altruistic than ever

Why COP27 should be the last of these pointless corporate love-ins
It’s a glorious afternoon at a luxury resort in Egypt, with six swimming pools leading to a lovely little stretch of beach on the Red Sea. A salsa aquatic class in one of the pools has several enthusiastic participants. Elsewhere, guests are lounging on deck chairs...
Why COP27 should be the last of these pointless corporate love-ins

Entering the brave (not so) new world
So…It has finally happened. A mere decade later than initially expected, the real estate industry is coming to terms with the inevitable end of quantitative easing, ie, ‘normal’ rather than artificially suppressed interest rates. While we all enjoy a...
Entering the brave (not so) new world

Frog’s ears
Frog morphology crops up a lot in our descriptions of nature. Babington’s orache (please read on) has frog’s head seeds, toadflax flowers are said to resemble the gape of a toad. In our ditches the clear water supports a delicate white flower called frogbit, home to,...
Frog’s ears