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This is a collection of good, thought-provoking writing from the blogs and podcasts we have in our index. Discovered and carefully curated by our in-house AI tools. Whether a new take on a classic topic or a fresh voice on a trending issue, you will find something interesting to read here.

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Twelve Days in the Year: 27th March 2024

Woken by a powerful, disturbing dream, in which I have had to organise some sort of awayday for graduate students, arrive at the venue to unpack everything and take over the room from the previous group punctually at half past six ready for dinner – only for the leader of that group, unmistakeably P...

Student spotlight: Victory Yinka-Banjo

The junior, who is majoring in computer science and molecular biology, wants to “make it a norm to lift others as I continue to climb.”

Farewell, John Kordyback

John Kordyback, a treasured colleague and friend, died last week, aged 64. more…

Climate Change Is Breaking Time

Thinking too hard about time is a little like thinking too hard about blinking; it seems natural and intuitive until suddenly you’re sweating and it makes no sense at all. At least, that’s how I felt when I came across an incredible new study published in Nature this afternoon by Duncan Agnew, a geo...

The Book of Chaos: Freely

The world moves.I know it. You know it.Everyone knows the world is always turningand everyone knows that everything changes,or that life happens,as in, all the time.Every day . . . Good things happen.Bad things happen.Or as the saying goes,“There is a time for all things,under Heaven.”Good things ha...

The Work of Moss-Gathering

“By their fruits you will recognize them,” Jesus tells his disciples. If what appears is bad or worthless, you’ll have been made aware of what was there all along, incipient. You can tear up the weed and try again. But when something good appears, something truly good, you’ll be glad you let it grow...

Chance of serendipity

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I recently talked to a group of students, sharing stories of the joy and fulfilment that developer communities have brought to my life. As I did my best to inspire them to get involved and contribute to communities, I quoted Andy Croll’s great blog post about why one should attend conferences: Meeti...

Anthropocene or not, it is our current epoch that we should be fighting for

Has the Holocene epoch of the past 11,700 years been supplanted by the proposed Anthropocene epoch of today? Although it’s broadly accepted that planetary systems have changed as a result of human influence, a panel of experts at the International Union of Geological Sciences answered a firm “no” wh...

Happy Birthday: Part Sixteen

This is the sixteenth part of a fiction serial, in 753 words. In later life, Hettie would look back on that decade with great fondness. Despite the loss of young Henry in the war, the family stayed together, and prospered in different ways. Her and Edward became resigned to the fact that they would ...