Thought
Fresh takes on fringe thoughts and compelling contemplations
Author Emma Styles: “How I Find Adventure”
Friends who’ve known me for decades tell me I’m always searching for something, whether it’s new experience, meaning, connection or facing down fear in one way or another…
Rebel Yell! What If We Put More Clothes On?
Up and down on public escalators my eyes flicker over endlessly supine forms, repeated with the shoving insistence of propaganda…
Guest Stars: The Influence of Fleeting Friendship
Life seldom adheres to order, especially in the theatre…
On Breakfast Clubs & Forming Tastebuds
Like a well-oiled machine, your parents held the door open and fed you to the belly of the city. In return, you got breakfast and a little bit braver…
Rebel Yell! What Are You Thinking?
Fast thinking Gets Things Done. But it is also the mental equivalent of jumping from cloud to cloud, going through never-ending levels of a video game that can only lead to the grave…
The Crafty Arts of Chromatic Selling & Subliminal Messaging
We see a multitude of cavalcading colour everywhere, and nobody knows how to use it better than marketing gurus...
Psychopaths: Closer Than You Think
The popular perception of a psychopath might still be the knife-wielding maniac, but Hare has challenged this view with his study of corporate psychopathy…
A Colour of Many Connotations: Red
Like immorality, blazing red on a woman’s chest, red is little more than what we make of it in our own prudishness or paranoia…
Face Off: The Invisible Enemy
London is the most surveilled city in the world after Beijing, and proportionally to population size, the UK has as many surveillance cameras as China…
Earth Day Special: the Third Life of Paper
Coming from Ancient China to the West through the Silk Road, paper revolutionised how we communicate...
What’s in a Selfie?
For as long as people have been taking photos, they’ve been taking photos of themselves…
Green Eyes: Myths, Migration and Melanin
But why did green eyes become considered as specifically mystical? One probable explanation is that they are so rare: less than two percent of the world’s population are estimated to have green eyes...
The Secret Life of Housewives & Heinz Tomato Soup
As innocent as the can of soup – that staple of your cupboard; holy grail of the lazy; ever-lurking shadow on the supermarket shelf – is the housewife…