“We’re having a brainstorm in 10 minutes… I’ll be asking on each one of you for your opinion.” My boss wrote over Slack. — “We’re having a brainstorm in 10 minutes… I’ll be asking on each one of you for your opinion.” My boss wrote over Slack. It was actually 85 minutes before the meeting even started, and then everyone spent an unproductive 20 minutes talking about their general fears and concerns of the…

A Sci-Fi/YA story concept — It rained all day. I sat at the window with Jak longing for the sunshine of the previous six weeks to return. The roads, slick with mud from the tractor hurrying between the fields. Farmers desperate to move the livestock to shelter. It rained the next day as well. And…

I’m tired of watching our heroes fail. It’s no fun to watch a protagonist who is not only doomed to fail, but is also doomed to never even… — I’m tired of watching our heroes fail. It’s no fun to watch a protagonist who is not only doomed to fail, but is also doomed to never even try. …

Thought leadership content is evolving. — For many, the last few months have opened up and given us a taste of a return to normality, whatever that means. When most people say normal, they mean comfortable. The pre-pandemic business world was both a convenient and dangerous place. Since the pandemic, there have been many changes, from…

You don’t know what you don’t know… — Science is full of popular ideas and concepts. The ones we hear about are those that the general media speculate will determine the course of human society. However, it is the mundane and simple ideas that develop to shift our daily lives in ways that are difficult to predict. …

We may or may not be alone… — We love to think that life is not just an insulated incident in the universe. Earth is swarming with 9 million species, including those clever enough to understand that intelligent life might occur elsewhere. A string of discoveries has fuelled the idea that alien life is plentiful. A growing catalogue…

The European Space Agency plans to organize a mission in 2025 to show the feasibility of using lunar resources. The exploration can only be… — The European Space Agency plans to organize a mission in 2025 to show the feasibility of using lunar resources. The exploration can only be carried out by robots capable of cooperating. A first simulation has just been successfully carried out. Among the robots in development at the European Space Agency…

The discovery of liquid water on some planetary bodies could be a sign that the Earth is not the only one to harbor life. But if… — The discovery of liquid water on some planetary bodies could be a sign that the Earth is not the only one to harbor life. But if micro-organisms from far away reached us, would we be immune? The answer is most likely not. …