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Loved to death... Author:  Edward Posnett We destroy what we love most.  There may be no better way to sum up the last hundred years of human civilization.  Seemingly without exception, humanity finds a way to ruin the gifts that Mother Nature has bestowed on us.  From the foods we eat to the natural resources we rely on, we seem hell bent on destruction at every opportunity.  Sustainability has become an important concept that might help us try and contain this human tendency, but it couldn’t be clearer that it goes against every instinct that modern humans possess.  But maybe [...]

She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not Author: Sandie Jones Emily is your average girl with it all: a boyfriend she adores, two best friends who think the world of her, a successful (albeit normal) job, and the not-so-hard to hear peel of wedding bells in the future. That’s before she meets Pammie, her boyfriend’s mother. That’s long before what starts off as a little bitchy in-law action verges into the malevolent and then into the insane. That’s before Emily gets in on the game and it goes beyond winning (and keeping) a man’s heart. As a matter of fact, [...]

"We're scientists,  we're here to help." Author:  Randall Munroe Creativity and imagination.  They aren’t the first traits you think of when you conjure up a typical white-coated laboratory scientist.  But then Randall Munroe isn’t your typical scientist.   The former NASA roboticist has accumulated an enthusiastic following ever since he started writing a webcomic in 2005.  Known by the four letter – and unpronounceable – nonsense word xkcd, it’s famous for its deft use of stick figure humans and a consistently humorous approach to solving myriad scientific puzzles.  This seemingly simplistic, but thoroughly entertaining approach has proven imminently successfully and Munroe [...]