Communication, Disaster, Design Thinking, Visual Design, GIS, Risk, Machine Learning, Resilience, Innovation, Warning Systems, Photography
: The Orange Toddler A moment of levity thanks to McSweeneys. Given the influence that the President of the United States …
: A little reminder.... A reminder for these times.
: CIA World Factbook “The first thing a dictatorship does is to burn books and close libraries.” — Erich Kästner CIA …
: British Cartographic Society Teatime Talks The British Cartographic Society produce a number of ‘teatime talks’, have a look at the BCS website …
: Python Maps I’ve had to dust off Python skills together with learning R as part of my postgrad course. It has …
: GIS Meme I think anyone who has learnt ArcGIS or perhaps GIS in general will feel this. Timely as I have had …
: Scotland Swifts Scotland made history last week by becoming the first UK country to introduce a legal requirement …
: UCL Event: RDR celebrating UCL200: Communicating risk in an uncertain world Explore how we communicate risk, evidence and uncertainty in a fast‑changing world — part of the UCL …
: A sensible AI thought piece... I came across this article on OReilly.com and it’s co-authored by Tim O’Reilly. If you don’t know …
: Correlating Causation The whimsy of Tyler Vigen made me smile. Random correlations dredged up from silly data, turned into …
: UCL Good news this week for University College London. UCL has risen two places to be named the …
: Google Genie Google Labs have announced Google Genie- an early research prototype powered by their Genie 3 model …
: The View from Afar If ever there was a portent of doom, it would surely arrive in the form of Peter Thiel and Palantir. …
: Claude's Constitution A lot has been written about AI, Machine Learning, LLMs and ethics. But the release of Claude’s …
: The Mother of GPS Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 “Her story began far from …
: Tech Bros I remember this quote from Rebecca Shaw in ‘The Guardian’ last year: “I knew one day I’d have to …
: Water Bankruptcy Published on the occasion of UNU-INWEH’s 30th anniversary, and ahead of the 2026 UN Water …
: Water of the Sky In Water of the Sky, artist Miya Ando offers a rich, bilingual visual dictionary for rain. Through a …
: Tertiary Education Harriet Richardson wrote an interesting article in Design Week - “Design courses are failing …
: Pandemics I’m sure the world is exhausted by the mere mention of the word ‘pandemic’ but recent academic …
: Stripe Press Stripe Press is owned by Stripe, the financial infrastructure company, acting as their in-house …
: Icon Design & Visual Literacy You may not know Jon Hicks but you’ve likely seen his work as the graphic designer of Firefox, …
: Lo-Fidelity Effectiveness Tongue in cheek but lo-fidelity solutions still offer redundancy and remove dependency. Although …
: Nature Magazine - Best Science Images of 2025 In the age of AI slop and fake imagery, there is innate pleasure in real images of the natural …
: Unidentified Seismic Objects Climate change is increasingly exposing polar regions to large landslides. Tsunamigenic landslides …
: Woman at Work Vol.co, an imprint of Thames & Hudson delivered Woman at Work today. I was a backer of the …
: USAID Unconscionable feels inadequate to describe the cavalier and callousness metered out in performative …
: GoPro '25 It’s that time of the year when YouTube becomes inundated with highlight reels. As I film and shoot, …
: Empathy Mackenzie Scott has donated US$7.2 billion of her personal fortune to a variety of organisations …
: Evoking Empathy for Nature Tim Flach is one of my favourite animal portraitists. If such a genre exists but I’d offer that he …
: COVID-19 Enquiry In news that comes as a surprise to nobody with a modicum of pecuniary sense is news that the …
: Science in Storytelling Wildscreen’s Science & Storytelling has been announced for 19-20 March 2026. The full programme is …
: Google DeepMind - AI Hurricane Forecasting Artificial intelligence has been used in weather forecast models for some time. Google’s DeepMind, …
: The Impact of USAID Shut Down As forecast, the shut down of USAID under the Trump administration has led to increased mortality. …
: Beate Gütschow: Resistance, Flood, Fire, Resistance I was sorry to miss Paris Photo 2025 which was hosted at the Grand Palais. The last time I went to …
: Activists are using role play in Fortnite to counter ICE There is huge potential for scenario based table top exercises in ‘virtualised environments’. …
: Kicking the Oil Can Down The Road When it comes to global climate action, the COP30 consensus is the floor – the bare minimum of what …
: Echo of a Dictator I discovered the work of Davina Jogi via Akashinga and browsed her portfolio site. Filtering her …
: Cecil Beaton - What a Wonderful War The Cecil Beaton exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery showcases a number of images of his …