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January 2026

: 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, …

December 2025

: 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, …

November 2025

: 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 …