The World Was Never a Padded Room 
The Question That Clears a Room 
Google Wants a Virtual Power Plant 
The Pot That Was Never There 
The Storm Arrived On Time. The Flood Defences Didn’t. 
The World Was Never a Padded Room
Has the pursuit of absolute safety begun to undermine the resilience we need to survive...
The Question That Clears a Room
The degree I didn’t have The civilian police turned me down because I didn’t have...
Google Wants a Virtual Power Plant
Who Gets to Control the Switch? Artificial intelligence needs electricity on an industrial scale, and...
The Pot That Was Never There
The border moved while I was walking towards it Some of my earliest stamps were...
The Storm Arrived On Time. The Flood Defences Didn’t.
The season nobody puts on the calendar Nine years. That’s how long a small group...
Divide and Conquer
The Lonely Rectangle At the end of August, Domino’s launched a new pizza in America...
Blue Zones: The Paperwork Is in Order
Why the world’s longevity hotspots might owe more to filing cabinets than to beans In...
Organic Data Processing
The Soul Was Always a Remix This morning I asked a machine whether an article...
The Bucket Has Two Bottoms
The gherkin and the bucket Somewhere in Britain this summer, a teenager in a branded...
The Spreadsheet Will See You Now
The Decision Nobody Made Gene Lokken was ninety-one when he fell in the spring of...