The Atacama Desert in Chile is for the most part an unspoilt natural wonder: The Atacama desert | The Atacama Desert is commonly known as… | Flickr However, shocking images in the press show a

2022 is a century on from the ‘birth of Modernism’: Modernism is a cultural and philosophical movement that emerged in the West during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It’s a complex hydra-headed beast

SolarPunk or LunarPunk? A seven-metre representation of the moon by celebrated artist Luke Jerram is to go on display at Exeter Cathedral from Thursday 3 February. The internally-lit sculpture, which will be suspended from the

From the Australian Gizmodo website: A small town in Japan just celebrated the maiden voyage of its first dual-mode vehicle that combines a train and a bus, and comes with little train wheels that hoist its rubber tires into the

Solarpunk is about good architecture… Frank Lloyd Wright used the term “Usonian” in reference to the United States, on the grounds that “American” encompassed other countries of the Americas. I learned this over the holidays,

Seaweed is really taking off – as today’s story on Radio 4’s The Food Programme tells us: Gabriella D’Cruz, from Goa, wants to improve diets, transform livelihoods and protect the planet using an often-overlooked marine

Solarpunk is really going mainstream: To quote from a Greek yogurt company’s advert: “Chobani believes how we eat today has a direct and lasting impact on what tomorrow brings” Eat today, feed tomorrow – YouTube

The Renaissance scientist and mathematician Kepler discovered how snowflakes work: BBC Radio 4 – Science Stories, Series 8, Kepler’s Snowflakes He also gave us the first piece of science fiction: Since Johannes Kepler with “Somnium”

In the new series of Thinking Allowed on Radio 4, Laurie Taylor asks why we treasure our stuff: The Value of Things At a time when many of us are sorting through Christmas presents, both