From XR to anti-vaxxers, we take stock of the influences on society and culture across the globe, the movements, the movers and the shakers.
If you subscribe to the notion that property is theft, then the shift to subscription-based living is perfect for you: we’re moving some way to a world where the concept of ownership is being fundamentally redefined.The last few years have seen a dramatic increase...
It is no coincidence that President Joe Biden chose to hold his Leaders’ Summit on Climate on Earth Day. The initiative, now entering its second half century, has become a focal point for environmental action and activism around the world, and with climate change...
The world’s on fire, literally sometimes. Carbon is filling the atmosphere. There are massive spiders in some places. God it’s awful isn’t it? But hey ho, there’s still hope right?... Right…..? Guess what I’m badgering on about. Yeah that’s exactly correct, climate...
A turning point for Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at New York's Columbia University, came when his lab discovered it could activate a few neurons in a mouse's visual cortex and make it hallucinate.The mouse had been trained to lick at a water spout every time it...
In 2019, the UK Parliament declared a Climate Emergency but a proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) Bill is being delayed, with no firm timescale for debate.Drafted by scientists, legal experts, ecological economists and environmentalists, the CEE Bill...
Men are primarily responsible for violence against women and girls. All men, including those who are not perpetrating violence or abuse, have a responsibility to play a part in helping to end it.More men are starting to reflect on their own role in the problem and...
Wales has extended the prohibition on smoking at hospitals, schools, and playgrounds, with violators to face a £100 fine. Wales is the first of the UK nations to introduce this ban.This is in addition to various restrictions on the practice, including a ban on...
“Care for what you have.” This was the little tagline I had printed on our first postcards for Fixup, the pop up repair shops I ran in New York City for the past seven years.The tagline was meant to be read in two ways. As an imperative: in the face of...
It’s a truism that ‘everything’s changed’ as a result of the pandemic. But is it really true? There are certainly many areas of life that have evolved more quickly than anticipated, but is this a permanent reset? Or will people, businesses and governments all...
