Within a modern city like London or New York over ten million people exist, literally living atop one another in hyper dense concentrations of life perhaps only rivalled by termites and microorganisms living in colonies. The city is a relatively new creation of homo sapiens, and its creation can be traced back to a region […]

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Christopher Nolan realises the only way to make his new apocalyptic film, ’2073’, is to cause global warming the hard way. “We can’t use special effects” Nolan added The visionary director stands before a charred field of burning tyres. Stretching as far as the eye can see, the rubber debris are being set alight by […]

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Imagine being offered an eyepiece which is linked up to an orbiting satellite telescope, ‘here take a look’ an excited astronomer blurts. You kneel down and squint a little as the rubber seal blocks out the background light of the room, an image crystalises; a tiny dark blue orb floating beside a relatively huge, burning […]

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From the last PMQs its clear Corbs and May have plenty to bicker about, and not much leftover to agree on. Regardless of what the tabloids would have you believe about school dinners and a couple of grand off the middle class mans paycheck, there is a far more divisive issue that’s casting a shadow […]

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Trumps antics are already ticking the internal doomsday clocks of just about every rational agent on the planet. I’ve even heard rumours that some Orangutans are worried. And perhaps the biggest of all the worries is the big T’s complete disregard for renewable energy/climate change. It’s making headlines globally at the moment, and we’re merely […]

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Douglas Adams’The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy garners a fair slice of modern pop cult references, and perhaps its most famous ‘bit’ is the answer to the ultimate question of the universe, the meaning of life and everything, 42. In the book a supercomputer called Deep Thought calculates this answer over a period of 7.5 […]

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  Your brain is one the most complex objects in the known universe, and in terms of synapses it’s at its most complex when you’re about twelve months old. This early phase is a critical moment in your development, your mesh of neurons is being worked at by the chisel of experience, to reveal the […]

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