Risky Business
Some people just don’t get a lot of luck. Take for instance the Norwegian...
Missing the Point
Microsoft recently reported the first quarterly financial loss in its history. The reason was...
No If's, Butts or Maybe's
Many of us are confronted on a day to day basis with being tied...
A Half-Full Glass
A study, published in Nature Neuroscience, suggests the brain is very good at processing...
Emotional Olympics
As we count down to another Olympic games we can start to think about...
Flatter to Deceive
Flattery is an interesting subject and one we witness often within our social environment...
Water Wings
A mosquito's tiny, low-weight body is the key to its ability to survive flying...
Supergran
As leaders we are required to step up and be counted. When the music...
Fried Chicken
You will be familiar with many of the names of the great astronauts in...
Seeing Is Believing
A bionic eye - or – more accurately, a retinal implant has been invented...
Less is More
In a previous Zeitgeist blog we talked about Google’s patent for driverless cars which...
Complexity, Chaos and Confusion
You are sitting at your desk and yet another email notification pops up in...
The Chicken and the Egg
A Sri Lankan hen has given birth to a live chick without laying an...
Taking it on the Chin
Did you know that chin implants are the fastest growing type of cosmetic procedure...
Safety in Numbers
We have recently come across a new statistical unit – the ‘micromort’. The micromort...
el Día de los Muertos
As regular readers of Zeitgeist know, we do like to see innovative ways of...
Home Is Where the Heart Is
In what could be the world's first climate-induced migration of modern times, the nation...
I, Robot
The fundamental obstacle to understanding where technology culture is heading is that increasingly, it's...
Dealing with Dave
The meeting has already gone an hour over its scheduled time. The participants are...
Why Fight It?
Many business travelers would agree that going without Wi-Fi for any length of time...