There are conversations we know we need to have but also know we can’t. Not because we don’t care. But because we care too much about what we might lose if we say the wrong thing. In early 2025, I made a seven-minute musical film in 48 hours. It’s called “If You Don’t Act, Then […]
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Adoption isn’t about parents picking and choosing the “right” child, it’s about providing for the child’s needs.
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As a parent of a young child, I imagine puberty talks happening when our children are well into secondary school. But increasingly, pre-teens as young as 7 or 8 start asking questions. A mum friend recently shared with me that her 8-year-old had a pimple on their face and asked, “Mum, am I starting puberty?”
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There’s been a lot of talk lately — including from Bernie Sanders — about shortening the work week in the face of ever-improving productivity driven by AI and other technologies. On paper, this makes sense: if machines do more of the repetitive work, surely humans should get more time back. But as someone working in
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“People don’t want their problems solved.” Yesterday, I reached this conclusion about a local community group struggling with overwhelming admin. They raised some issues with me, sounding like they wanted solutions. But, in fact, they didn’t want to hear any. They insisted on throwing more people at menial tasks and continuing as they have for
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There has been lots of criticism towards the mainstream media relating to downplaying the significance of the climate issue and the so called Impartiality policies. They end up disproportionately supporting non-scientific ideas that are astonishingly being put on the same level as science backed facts about the importance of tackling climate change. Thankfully the democratization
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I’ve been thinking about my mortality lately, but not so much focusing on the finitude of my life, but rather on how my leaving this world, one day, will impact my daughter. I had heard about the concept of ethical wills before, but it didn’t register an action in me until recently. An ethical will,
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Pollution, deforestation, and rising temperatures and sea levels are frequently making headlines, and we may feel a growing urgency to speak for the environment with friends and family. However, every time we attempt to approach the topic, we stumble over our words and struggle to find a useful thing to say. Then we just switch
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Generative Artificial Intelligence is no longer a niche interest for tech enthusiasts or Silicon Valley venture capitalists. GenAI is already embedded in our everyday lives — from the way we search, write, design, shop, diagnose illness, and even parent. Whether we like it or not, it’s here, learning at speed, and growing up in public.
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A Short Story by Yordan Yovkov. Translated by Cathy Kostova While defending him from the dogs, Petar the Shepherd realized that this unknown peasant hadn’t come to him just like that, but rather some misfortune was chasing him. That’s why he got angry at the dogs, drove them away, and looked at the peasant again.
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