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SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
Money & Business

SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities

...everyday practices and their longer-term direction. SMEs often (though not always) lack the skills, expertise, time and motivation to reduce their environmental impact. They are also difficult to regulate and it’s not easy to reach them via alternative policy interventions, such as skills training and education. Given these challenges, you won’t be surprised to...
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Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?

...everyday life. Beyond Veganuary? If Veganuary and veganism as a whole continue their impressive growth in 2025 and beyond, Bryant argues that we may soon approach a tipping point where veganism is widespread enough to ‘catch on’. However, there are still significant obstacles to overcome. The spectacular success of Veganuary is inspiring but increases in availability...
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How should Rwanda remember the genocide?
History & The Arts

How should Rwanda remember the genocide?

...everyday life. These spaces would bring together survivors, perpetrators, returnees, and ordinary citizens. There is also a great desire for knowledge about how to use these memories to seek justice, validation, and promote coexistence, especially for future generations. What we learnt I interviewed genocide survivors, former perpetrators and ordinary citizens who were...
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What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?

...everyday life in our towns and cities. Indeed, cities of multiple intelligences which include both artificial and human ones have arrived...The recent AI Safety Summit and press coverage suggest we need to think carefully about these new urban technologies. On one hand, the benefits of these new automated technologies such as driverless cars and delivery robots may be...
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Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...everyday life. Personally I would associate maths with wonder, awe and perhaps just a little terror. So when was the last time you unknowingly borrowed the work of a mathematician in your everyday life? If you are reading this article then you are at the computer: designed and programmed by mathematicians. Perhaps you like the cinema. The largest employer of...
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Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...everyday risks of human presence. The seeds in the seed vault are stored in black box conditions much like a bank vault. The seed bank provides the infrastructure but neither it, nor the Norwegian government, is allowed to access the seeds themselves. They remain the property of the depositing country. For all of its short history, the direction of travel of plant genetic...
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The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...everyday discourse is suggested by one of Presser’s participants, who, perhaps unconsciously, justified her own meat-eating with reference to The Lion King’s ideology: ‘The circle of life constitutes that some animals are bred to be nourishment’ (cited in Presser, 2013, p.57). Towards a revolution So what about the alternative resolution of the power paradox: to...
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Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...English is known as the iamb, which is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one (x /). Many words in English are iambic: a simple example is the word ‘forgot’. When we say this, the stresses naturally fall in the sequence: Iambic rhythm is in fact the basic sound pattern in ordinary English speech. If you say the following line aloud you will hear what I...
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