London
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Lethargy and London
The last week has been faintly intolerable in the UK as temperatures climbed to 37.5 degrees and every social
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UCL
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Urban Futures - UCL's 16th RDR Conference
A heatwave outside, a conference inside asking what cities must become to survive the next one.
Wildfire
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Qstat be thy name
This week, between Cambridge Tech Week, the Centre for Risk Studies Symposium, and agreeing to help run a UCL STEM day for teenagers — made newly urgent by a Scientific American piece on US science — I also wrestled my dissertation's quantitative core through UCL's HPC cluster.
UCL
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UCL200 - Mathematics Symposium
Marking 200 years of mathematics at UCL - a symposium that reminds us research only becomes useful when it leaves the journals and is made accessible and inclusive. Expect the maths that unmasked Banksy and caught a serial killer, plus UCL's "Godless institution" origins.
Right Plant, Right Roundabout
The Climate Change Committee published its fourth assessment of UK climate risk a matter of weeks ago and a couple
Travel
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A week, mainly in pictures...
It has been a week of suffering in some form - through travel, allergy or exposure to the relentless misery of
Fourteen
Our dog turns fourteen. A day trip to the North Norfolk coast was the only appropriate way to celebrate on an unexpectedly warm and sunny day.
Software
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First Aid Vibe
Vibe coding is democratising software — but at what cost? From GDPR fines to AI-exposed vulnerabilities, building without understanding creates real risk. Some suggestions for non-technical 'developers' before they ship.
Views from my kitchen sink
Inspired by Piet Oudolf's philosophy of naturalistic, resilient landscapes, I redesigned the view from my kitchen window and set myself the minor creative challenge of photographing it through that frame across the seasons.
Science
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We're going to the f'n moon!
It's hard not to be drawn into the orbit of the Artemis II mission. Only 66 years separated Kitty Hawk from the Sea of Tranquility — man reached the Moon with less computing power than the device you're reading this on.