Joining the knowledge dots!

Life is basically inter-disciplinary. Take Covid, as an example. The pandemic demands that we a have a rudimentary grasp of Biology to understand how the disease spreads and attacks; Maths and Technology if we are to understand the statistics and predictions; Chemistry and Technology if we want to know anything about the vaccines; not to…

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It’s scientific: we need more girls in STEM

If the pandemic and climate change has highlighted anything, it’s the importance of science in contemporary life, whether in the sphere of biology and medicine or physics and engineering. The need for people working in medicine, automation and the environment is set to become increasingly urgent which means drawing on a dramatically wider pool of…

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Cultivating cultural intelligence

In uncertain times, human beings tend to seek out the familiar, clinging to what we already know rather than making a leap of faith and filling the gaps in our knowledge. With 195 different countries in the world and thousands of cultures, it is impossible for us to understand where everybody is coming from, but…

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Have yourselves a merry little Christmas!

Christmas is such a monumental date on the Christian calendar that during World War One, German and Allied troops declared an unofficial truce on December 25 and sang carols to each other across No Man’s Land. Furthermore, they even emerged from the safety of their respective trenches to shake hands, exchange gifts and, in one…

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