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If you break it, you buy it.

In UCL Pi newspaper, print edition. My unedited, unabbreviated version below: A rant on our government's uselessness Re climate change. Woman up, world! Get the fuck up and start investing...

Building Sustainability

Bit of a re-hash, but worth looking into associated links. Especially buildings created from wood - brilliant.  In the same way that local filter bubbles can inhibit our capacity to...

The City Never Sleeps –But We Need To

Posted in UCL Pi magazine, my original version unedited: We’ve been brought up to believe sleep is a necessary but avoidable luxury – Watching Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Men, 24 –...

Frack off? Indeed

“Fracking has the real potential to drive down energy bills” Hydraulic fracturing operation at a Marcellus Shale well Cameron’s foray into the Shale gas debate is convincing. Who wouldn’t like...

Endorphins: crucial or not?

Written a few months ago, this look into endorphins was a submission for the Biochemical Society’s annual Science Writing competition – for the layperson. I can see some flaws, but figured...

Prosthetics: has Sports Media hyped up our expectations?

If you had to lose your legs to save your unborn child – would you do it? It’s one of those typical (and frankly preposterous) TV plots that demand a...

Kinesthetics

Dancing is not getting up any time painlessly like a speck of dust blown around in the wind. Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces...

The Focus in Architecture Design

“Why do I feel scared in some environments, but not in others?” For a while I thought the answer to this question was based entirely on events in that environment...

Bias is a fickle, far-reaching and manipulative beast

What a terrible day: a day when I am lexically stumped and mentally stupefied. However, it was also the day for the Wellcome Trust / Guardian Science writing competition. Having made...

Abstract Concepts

The few times I snuck into philosophy lectures during university I remember being confused. Not so much by the philosophical terminology (having spent a good few years in the larceny...

Neuromarketing (bit of a hoax?)

Whilst neuromarketing has often prominently featured in the media (getting into the brains of clients to subliminally seduce them into frivolity), a surprising lack of reviewed research lays a shoddy...

Are your actions guided by logic? It seems not.

Not the cognizant kind, anyway. We all know first impressions can be remarkably shallow. Who hasn’t been in a pub and automatically picked out the smouldering shape of sexiness at...