How might the study of art benefit science and vice versa, and how might our societies benefit when art meets science? – An independent learner’s perspective. During the Renaissance (approx. 1300-1600AD), polymaths such as Leonardo da Vinci explored nature and communicated their scientific discoveries through art. As this period of humanism and discovery closed, and […]
Waiapi family, Waiapi Indigenous Reserve. (APU GOMES/Getty Images). The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples provides an opportunity, each year on the 9th of August, to reflect on the gifts that the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples bring to our global society and planet, what we can learn from them, and how those of […]
Dr. Melanie Rieback is the Co-founder and CEO of Radically Open Security, the world’s first non-profit, computer security consultancy company. The security advice her team provides is “Radically Open” as Dr. Rieback is seeking to secure not just the internet but our societies and the World we live in. As well as consultancy and penetration […]
Sustainable gastronomy is an integral part of the interlinked system we must rapidly create if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Sustainable Gastronomy Day, which is celebrated annually on the 18th of June, was created to promote agricultural development, food security, nutrition, sustainable food production and better food choices, which in so […]
Dr. Merritt Moore holds degrees from Oxford and Harvard University, and has performed with the Zurich Ballet, Boston Ballet, English National Ballet, London Contemporary Ballet Theatre, and Norwegian National Ballet. Named in Forbes’ 30 under 30 in 2018, she also underwent rigorous selection to appear on BBC Two’s “Astronauts: Do you have what it takes?”, […]
An imagined journal, inspired by the work of the naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian – by Lara Louise Bevan-Shiraz Thursday, December 8, 1701 Today was faded, like it had been left out in the frosted sun too long. Though no sun could be found in the sky. By eight, the cobbled streets had […]
Promoting equal access to science for women and girls, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (IDWGS), celebrated on 11 February, is implemented by the United Nations (UN) under the leadership of the Royal Academy of Sciences International Trust (RASIT). The theme of this year’s Fourth Commemoration of The International Day of Women […]
Extract from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, where Mrs Whatsit explains how tessering works. Do you enjoy science fiction? I find it can be a bit too dystopian and scary for my bedtime reading. However, I love how science fiction writers go beyond the limits of their time and pattern spot to see […]
Greta Thunberg’s resilient climate activism has inspired a growing movement. Greta Thunberg, from Sweden, is sitting out of school on Fridays until climate change is a globally mobilised priority. Her simple action of sitting with a sign stating “school strike for climate” outside the Swedish parliament building in Stockholm led to her being invited to […]
On September 10th, 2018, the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivered a major address on climate change, warning that humanity is “careening towards the abyss”. Referencing the “extreme heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods, leaving a trail of death and destruction”, Guterres said, “I have asked you here to sound the alarm. We face a direct […]
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