The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah (or Chanukah) is celebrated over eight days and nights, starting on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev. This year, that falls on Sunday 22nd December. ‘Hanukkah’ is the Hebrew word for ‘dedication’. The festival was given this...
This year, between 23rd November and 1st December, Britain will be holding National Tree Week. This annual event aims to encourage the people of the UK to plant as many new trees as possible. First introduced in 1975, the initiative began as a response to the...
Alex Osborn, the father of the brainstorming method, believed that group brainstorming could lead to a 50% increase in creativity. Osborn published several books throughout his lifetime, and one of his most well-known is How To Think Up (1942), which explores the...
An unreliable narrator is an untrustworthy fictional character. This character, often the main protagonist, is either deliberately deceptive or unintentionally misguided; forcing the reader to question their credibility as a storyteller – and therefore the direction...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are key buzzwords from the computer science industry, referring to machines that carry out smart tasks – and they are no longer distant prospects of the future. The phenomenon is already proliferating modern day...
I taught business studies to a class of 17-year-olds at the beginning of 2019. They were a lively group and keen to understand more about the intriguing world of business. One day, one of my students asked me what advice I would give to my younger self. Drawing from...
