The Nobel Prize Foundation is a globally recognised organisation in its own right. It has celebrated candidates and laureates from nearly every country and focuses on a very broad range of human experience. You may want to know some more exact details about the...
Recent years have seen the sorts of shifts in life and lifestyle which science fiction writers of the past would have been simultaneously happy to have predicted and potentially surprised to see come to fruition. In 1930, Bob Brown wrote ‘The Readies’, predicting the...
Ten More Books… The Other People, C.J. Tudor If you’re a fan of books that go ‘bump in the night’ then C.J. Tudor’s latest offering is sure to satisfy. Gabe’s wife and daughter, Izzy, were murdered in their home, but Gabe remains convinced that Izzy is alive. In...
The dawn of 2020 marked not just a new year, but a new decade – and with a new decade comes the opportunity to read more books! With most of us now spending more time indoors, what better time to settle down with a good book and escape from the news for a few hours?...
This October, Oxford’s Science and Ideas Festival returns again. And so too does its annual writing contest. The IF Oxford 2020 Poetry of Science competition is open to budding young writers in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, at both primary and secondary...
Are we living in a dystopian universe? Maybe. Something about the ubiquity of email surveillance, deep-fake videos and uncontrolled rainforest fires is causing people to say that, yes, the world we live in now is as perplexing and corrupt as anything written by Orwell...
