The Cosmic Egg
An age old question for civilisations past and present is how the universe came to being. These questions remain science’s great challenge. Even today’s prevailing thinking regarding the Big Bang...
View ArticleBBC x GCHQ :: The battle for hearts & minds
Fifteen years ago, the single most significant factor contributing to the shared tastes of middle-class teens was TV. In particular, MTV. According to a New World Teen Study, 88% of those youngsters...
View ArticleMainstream Modern :: An architectural guide to Manchester
Mainstream Modern is an architectural guide to concrete that highlights the many wonderful, yet often unsung and overlooked modernist / concrete buildings in the city of Manchester. Founded as far...
View ArticleSssh… Your smart-TV is trying to sell you something
“Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be...
View ArticleEclipse 2015
Fri 20 March 08:20 GMT Sun Direction: 117.31° Sun Altitude: 20.33° — Eclipse 2015 (London)
View ArticleThe Keen Eye :: Game of Thrones – The King of Internet Piracy
Season five of HBO’s Game of Thrones has prompted a huge surge in illegal downloads of seasons one to four. More than 7m episodes have been downloaded between 5 February and 6 April 2015, earning it...
View ArticleWe Are Empire :: #16BitDreams
“Let’s cut to the chase, ‘fun’ in the creative business landscape can be interpreted in a range of ways. What I’d like to do in this piece is scratch the surface of the value that ‘fun’ holds for...
View ArticleSlovakian illustrator Petra Stefankova on process, change & marketing...
When I moved back to Slovakia in 2011, I suddenly felt that the buzz around my work got quieter. So I decided to experiment with style redevelopment and I had to reinvent myself a couple of times. The...
View ArticleTech evangelist Jonathan Dotse looks towards a traditional African...
Waniru Kahiu’s film Pumzi was one of the first pieces of African sci-fi I saw. Almost a decade ago, Jonathan Dotse, a then newly graduated Computer Science student, was on a transit flight from Canada...
View ArticleZoom or Room? The future of collaboration
[pullquote]With more ways to communicate and collaborate than ever before, does more really mean better?[/pullquote] 2020 has been a real one, with great waves of change in a shockingly short space of...
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