Food. A gift and a challenge. Too cheap (considering effort, lives lost, practices, implications to humans, animals and the planet alike), and too expensive and limited (global poverty is real and millions have too little…
Posts Published by Suzanne Whitby
Ginger Balls
Alexina Anatole has a recipe the The Guardian today for Pear and ginger overnight oats. Reading the comments, ofyen the best part of many of these articles, someone mentioned loving “ginger balls” ( with necessary…
The History of Opium
I want to learn more about the history of the opium trade. Esp. war between Britsand China. Ruled India? Calcutta?
The Adventures of Tintin
I read The Adventures of Tintin by Belgian cartoonist Hergé when I was a small human, and I’d rather like to re-read them.
More precisely physicist, less precisely woman…
An old, but humorous talk by Shohini Ghose from 2014. She talks about what she calls, “The surprising power of uncertainty”, and has some wonderful analogies about shape-shifting, existing in two states at the same…
The power of “super-facilitators”
I’ve been reading about “super-facilitators”: people who make teams smarter together by improving how they interact. It struck me how relevant this is to futures and foresight. Futures methods are often treated as the main…
A thought about uncertainty
“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognise the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace…
Tremor, A Movement Disorder in a Disordered World
Chloe Green’s intriguing review of “Tremor, A Movement Disorder in a Disordered World” by Sonya Voumard. Voumard felt her hands begin to shake in her childhood, a tremble she shared with her recently deceased father….
Humans: massacring, butchering, and (likely) partly consuming enemies as a means to dehumanise them since the Bronze age
Archaeologists have analysed over 3000 human bones and bone fragments from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse Warren, England, concluding that the people were massacred, butchered, and likely partly consumed by enemies as a…
The problem with talking about “tipping points”
Climate communicators (myself included) use the term “tipping points” to talk about the thresholds beyond which the Earth’s systems switch into new states, often abruptly and irreversibly. The point about talking about tipping points is…