Reading Time: 3 minutes A review of one of my favourite albums. Hot Rats is a culmination of absurdity. If Alice had been placed in the world of ‘Hot Rats’, I imagine her experience compared to in Wonderland would not have been too dissimilar.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Our intrinsic connection to nature, are we aware of it? This post will explore our natural desire to be close to living forms, uncovering how biophilia influences aspects of everyday life, such as its effect on our well-being, or recognising its incorporation into design around us.
Reading Time: 10 minutes Part of the Neglected Tropical Disease Series: Uncover how a worm can be carried by a mosquito, and the devastating disease caused by this deadly duo: Lymphatic Filariasis
Reading Time: 4 minutes Should we be worried about the world’s deadliest animal being affected by what could become the next invisible and deadliest polluter?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite a natural inclination towards the chaos of colours and shapes more commonly observed in modern abstractionism and slices of Bauhaus, I found myself drawn to a more calm piece titled “Dancing Mutants” by Filipino artist, Hernando R Ocampo, in 1965.
Reading Time: 8 minutes Part of the Neglected Tropical Disease Series: Why are snakes so deadly? Deaths due to snakebite are completely preventable, so why do the death statistics not reflect this? Why are many people facing this gruesome death? What can be done to stop this disease of poverty?
Reading Time: < 1 minutes A short, introductory post to this series. Uncover what a Neglected Tropical Disease is and get an idea of the types of issues, ranging from biological to social, that will be explored in this series!
Reading Time: 5 minutes The sharing of knowledge and the collaboration between different fields and communities are powerful tools in science. Integrating the arts, engineering, and the sciences can promote different ways of thinking, and the result can be the perfect combination of a multitude of minds coming together to make or discover something both unique and useful. Simple language does not mean simple thinking.