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Here is a video that is well worth sharing, regardless of any editorial comment by me!  Please watch it and act if you think that is worthy of action, click HERE and share it. Apart from it’s global significance this video shows a very powerful method of problem solving and decision making.  The thing that […][...] read more » Food for thought… and ACTION!

Post the Snowden affair we discovered just how much our governments were spying on us.  We have heard about the iCloud leaks and various big companies who have had their databases hacked, so security is very much in the news.  People are talking about using Tor to surf the net, and phones are being sold […][...] read more » Big Brother and why we should care

Recently Facebook ‘fessed’ up to to manipulating some 689,000 users emotions in the name of science.  Facebook’s data scientists manipulated the news feeds of 689,003 users, removing either all of the positive posts or all of the negative posts to see how it affected their moods.  They wanted to see what effect the presence or […][...] read more » Good news not only works but is required…

Whilst we were walking the Ceredigion Way, we learnt that it wasn’t a stroll along the beach, rather a series of seemingly endless ups and downs.  It was hard to decide which was harder, climbing the blooming hills or descending them, down steps that were all the wrong sizes or paths covered with shale, whilst […][...] read more » Lessons from the Ceredigion Way–part 2

Regular readers will know I am a keen rugby fan.  My team, the Harlequins, have had a difficult season.  Two years ago, they won the Aviva Premiership for the first time, last year they needed to prove it wasn’t a one-off and that they were genuine top four contenders.  They made it to the semi-finals […][...] read more » The comeback Quins

My partner is a beekeeper (a sad but honest confession) and last year like many others her hive died. It stood vacant and cold through the winter and she resolved to get some more bees this spring. She even donned her beekeeping suit and rushed off to gather a swarm that was terrorising a young […][...] read more » If you build it, they will come…

This was the final hill down into Aberystwyth, and this picture doesn’t do justice to just how steep it was!  We had just finished the walk from Cardigan along the Ceredigion Way.  It was unbelievably beautiful and if you like walking I can certainly recommend it.  We learnt a lot about the local flora and […][...] read more » Lessons from the Ceredigion Way–part 1

In the film World War Z, the world falls victim to a plague of zombies.  Suspiciously, Israel seems to be ahead of the curve and have locked their borders to repel this invasion… how did they know?  10 days prior to the plague they received an email mentioning zombies, their cabinet debated its authenticity and […][...] read more » The creative power of disagreement

You may have read about the sad death of Moritz Erhardt, the young intern at Merrill Lynch, who seems to have met his death as a direct result of the pressure cooker environment created by the bank he hoped to join.  They take on about 30 of the brightest and hungriest gradates each year as […][...] read more » Culture – the reality versus the myth

The Guinea worm is a water-borne parasite that used to blight the lives of people 3.5 million living in Africa, Asia and the Middle East people every year.  It leads to people incubating a metre long worm inside their body, which then heads towards the skin, and eventually emerges in a blister.  This process takes […][...] read more » When is a hanky not a hanky?