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The False Economy of Education Cuts

7 Nov 2025

Why This Matters (Even If You Don’t Live There)...

A Century in the Making: The DNA Discovery Story

31 Oct 2025

When most people hear about the discovery of DNA, they picture James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953, triumphantly holding up a model of the double helix. But DNA’s story doesn’t begin, or end,...

Seeds of Hope Require Roots of Integrity: Remembering Jane Goodall

24 Oct 2025

On Wednesday October 1st, 2025, Dr. Jane Goodall passed away while on a speaking tour in the United States. As an esteemed scientist whose life mission was to advocate for wildlife, promote...

Faster, Higher, Stronger… Enhanced?

17 Oct 2025

For most people, track and field exists as a fleeting summer spectacle: ten days every four years when the fastest, strongest, and most gravity-defying humans wage war on a 400-metre oval. For me,...

Can Nature Design Technology Better Than Us?

10 Oct 2025

Biomimicry, a scientific field dedicated to using nature as a model to guide the development of more efficient and better technology, recenters the anthropocentric narrative that often takes the...

For the Love of Fibre

3 Oct 2025

Recently, while browsing the candy aisle (my natural habitat as a gummy connoisseur), I was confronted by a monstrosity: protein candy. Listen, I get it. This gummy abomination is merely a...

The Anatomy of a Bad Argument

19 Sep 2025

Ever find yourself in a heated argument about climate change, vaccines, or whether the moon landing was “just Hollywood propaganda”? Suddenly, you’re not debating facts, you’re dodging YouTube...

Is There Really Room for Beer in Your Wellness Routine?

12 Sep 2025

“Beer Spa” –– two words that you wouldn’t think to put together. Well, go to the center of Prague, and there is seemingly no end to the signs for these curious retreats....

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