How to balance work and travel. Also, how working and travelling changes your perspective on the places you visit.
Category: Other
Entropy is not Disorganisation
Ryan corrects the pop culture definition of entropy and shows us the benefits (nanostructures!) of a more appropriate definition.
Comforting the Grieving
Everyone dies eventually. Coming to terms with the loss of someone who you were close to isn’t easy. Neither is seeing a friend go through that loss. How can you help your friend out? Anum shares some solid advice she’s gathered from her experiences as a grief counsellor.
Intro to Mind-Reading: EEG
How an electroencephalogram can read the electromagnetic waves that are created when your neurons fire. How you can use that information to understand if a person is alert and read what areas of the brain they’re using.
KNOTS! KNOTS! KNOTS!
The three basic knots you need to not die. The Fixed Loop (self-explanatory), the Clove Hitch (tying rope to object) and the Double Fisherman’s Bend (tying a rope to another rope) for extension purposes.
Debugging Your Thoughts with CBT
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a therapeutic technique to help sufferers of anxiety or depression deal with the unhelpful “thought spirals” they enter into.
This was basically the presentation version of this blog post.
Stem Cell Tourism
Progress within stem cell research, and the dangers behind the growing stem cell tourism industry
Depression
Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking.
A peek into how the fashion industry is more than just trends and pretty clothing, and how it’s inspired me as a designer.
The Tipping Point: How climate change will tip the scales of power in the next 100 years
A brief look at how global warming in today’s world will affect the balance of political power in tomorrow’s world, with lessons from the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and the United States.
