October 2015
Today, global action to stop climate change is inconceivable. Yet, in 1938, global action to stop Nazi Germany was also inconceivable. The world was in Hitler denial.
August 2015
Exactly 75 summers ago, Buckminster Fuller accidentally discovered a self-air conditioning house. How did he do it?
May 2015
Roughly half of the world’s entire oil supply is gone; half is left. How will our society choose to use the oil that remains?
February 2015
Jimi Hendrix was the greatest guitarist who ever lived. Your climate-denying uncle is just some random bloke who no one has ever heard of.
May 2013
A classic experiment into drug addiction science. Would rats choose to take drugs if given a stimulating environment and social company?
September 2012
To what extent do metaphors shape and distort our understanding of reality? Co-written with Nick Barter.
June 2012
Trees build themselves from the carbon, hydrogen and oxygen of thin air. Can we learn to copy their engineering secrets?
May 2012
What does the Mount St. Helens ecosystem have in common with the human industrial system?
