Whoever forms the next U.K. Government must find a way of boosting growth, and encouraging … [+] innovation will be key. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images) Getty Images Earlier this week, Peter Kyle, the Labour Party’s shadow secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, pledged that if victorious in next month’s U.K. General Election … Read more
A technology by itself is never enough. In order for it to be of use, it needs to be accompanied by other elements, such as popular understanding, good habits, and acceptance of shared responsibility for its consequences. Without that kind of societal halo, technologies tend to be used ineffectively or incompletely. A good example of … Read more
Practising mindfulness can increase creative thinking Gilaxia/Getty Images FROM Jane Austen to Albert Einstein, Zaha Hadid to Ai Weiwei, it is easy to name people who have advanced the thinking of humankind – but it is much harder to explain why people like this think so much more creatively than the rest of us. Are their … Read more
WHEN an ancient Egyptian sought an encounter with Bes, the god of fertility and childbirth, they would draw an image of the deity on their hand, wrap that hand and their neck with black cloth, and then settle down to sleep. This practice, described in a papyrus that dates to around 1350 BC, is the … Read more