Engineering Heat Underground
On a hot summers day, a trip on the tube to get home can be a dreaded experience, with already hot trains overflowing with sweaty people. But how did we get to a situation where tube trains are stiflingly hot, and what’s being done about it? A talk given by London...
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Wind turbines made from wood
Numerous construction projects that were previously off-limits to wood are now possible because to new techniques for connecting lumber together, most recently wind turbines. Sweden, the home of wooden invention, is creating a 330-foot (100-meter) wooden wind turbine...
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Is smartphones the new “place” where we live?
Smartphone users have become “human snails carrying our homes in our pockets”, with a tendency to ignore friends and family in favour of their device, according to certain studies. A team of anthropologists from UCL spent more than a year documenting smartphone use in...
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How to reclaim confidence?
Most people are creative from birth. When we are young, we like pretend play, ask bizarre questions, and make dinosaur-like drawings of blobs. But throughout time, many of us begin to squelch those urges as a result of socialization and formal education. We get the...
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Challenges of Disruptive Change
For managers of large corporations, these are uncertain times. They have a poor track record of dealing with significant, disruptive change even before the Internet and globalization. For instance, only one department store—Dayton Hudson—became a pioneer in cheap...
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The upcoming Trends
Pulled straight out of our schoolyard days, the SS24 Mens Fashion Shows are sparking a nostalgia-infused trend. Brands such as Kenzo, Louis Vuitton, and Givenchy are highlighting how one can never be too old to pull off a varsity...
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