Imagination is a spectrum – and 1% of people can’t mentally visualise things at all: Prostock-studio/Shutterstock When you hear someone talk, do you see the words in your mind’s eye? Or do you see what they’re saying as a movie? It’s easy to assume that the way you perceive the world is the same for …
Gifts of Christmas past: buy secondhand to give your loved ones the gift of nostalgia and imagination: Alex Traveler / Shutterstock Christmas is a period for celebrating our relationships with family and friends – a time filled with nostalgia and sentimentality. Of course for many people it’s also a time of conspicuous consumption, even if …
British politics urgently needs more imagination. Competence alone will not save us from this ‘polycrisis’: The recent turmoil in British politics has led much of the political establishment and commentariat to agree on one thing: what the country needs now is competence, the more boring the better. The last thing we need is risky ideas. …
Noise in the brain enables us to make extraordinary leaps of imagination. It could transform the power of computers too: Shutterstock We all have to make hard decisions from time to time. The hardest of my life was whether or not to change research fields after my PhD, from fundamental physics to climate physics. I …
‘We suppressed our scientific imagination’: four experts examine the big successes and failures of the COVID response so far: The World Health Organization declared COVID a pandemic on March 11 2020. In the two years since, countries have diverged on their containment strategies, introducing many different ways of mitigating the virus, to varying effect. Here, …
South Africa in the news: Policing in South Africa: A crisis of imagination and a failure of leadership: The age of policing strategy being designed on the basis of a politician’s whim must come to an end and be replaced by a process of strategy development that is thoroughgoing, inclusive and …: “South Africa” – …
South Africa needs a fresh national imagination: here are some ideas: A mural in Maboneng, Johannesburg. Kim Ludbrook/EPA-EFE Imagine that during the COVID-19 lockdown South Africans woke up one morning to TV shows, radio broadcasts and pamphlets announcing a declaration by “white” South Africans: “WE ARE NO LONGER WHITE!” In their statement they explain why. …
South Africa in the news: “Zuma: Reality is a fiction of his imagination”- BizNews: BizNews.com is one of South Africa’s leading business news websites. Founded by internet publishing pioneer and broadcaster Alec Hogg, specializes in providing news and expert opinion on money and …: “South Africa” – BingNews Founder Institute has opened applications for its …
From the Grand Tour to My Brilliant Friend: how Naples captured our imagination: Moody Naples. IgorZh/Shutterstock Overlooking sparkling sea and overshadowed by Mount Vesuvius, the Italian city of Naples is a popular and evocative setting in popular culture. HBO’s acclaimed TV adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s best-selling Neapolitan novels returned to UK screens for its second …
Bizarre Review: A Wrinkle in Time leaves too much up to imagination: A Wrinkle in Time is a family friendly movie featuring an uncanny cast, where two children venture into the universe to find their dad, facing many personal and unworldly challenges along the way. A Wrinkle in Time is a family friendly movie featuring …
Dance, Drum & Imagination Summer Camp Free Info Session – a Africa interest event taking place on 2018-04-22 12:30:00 in United States This summer, young artists ages 3-7 will unleash their imaginations and learn about music and dance from the African Diaspora. Join us for this free summer camp info session to learn more about the …