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Josiah Wedgwood Tradesman – Tycoon, Firing up the Modern Age
Josiah Wedgwood was a trend setting potter, manufacturing innovator and marketing genius. He fulfilled the dream, going from being an apprentice tradesman in a tough industry, to becoming a world famous tycoon. He built a business empire, founded a famous family dynasty and gained for himself a favourable reputation against all the odds and in harsh and physically demanding conditions.
Galileo & The Little Eye
Many of the most influential gardens of past centuries have not survived. Those that have, in many cases do not usually conform at all to the original intent of their designer, or owner. The world around them, and the social climate that produced them, has constantly changed. This change took place in conjunction with the [...]
Mastering Cuisine to Master Chefs – A Fascination with Food
In every culture and in every era rules rituals and styles of cooking have been customized to support its ideas, its attitudes and to help develop its character
The Child – Nature vs Nurture an Epic Struggle for Supremacy
Once again the debate about nature vs. nurture is in the news. Do people in the main react more to ways they are taught or according to genetic predisposition? What is the importance of conditioning and thought on human development and how does it affect gender roles? The debate is not new. It has been raging for centuries.
InForum Group Invitation – Social Media in Business & Beyond
From brands to business from professionals to politics the InForum Group’s Social Media panel will be sure to emphasize that the influence of social media and social networks can no longer be ignored
Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs – Astrology and Humankind
Astrology, according to the dictionary, is a study of the positions and relationships of the sun, moon, stars and planets in order to judge their influence on human actions. Making a study of the sun and star signs for many is a hobby. But now and then there has been some really serious diviners out there. None more effective in my experience than America’s Linda Goodman 1925 – 1995 (real name Mary Alice Kemery) a former New York Times bestselling astrologer and poet.
Change – Bringing about a Sustainable Creative World
Change is threatening because it means things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging and to the confident inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better”
Inalienable Rights of Man – Class In, Out or, Dismissed
The English class system it seems has changed from being a pyramidal shape into being a diamond shape, at least in terms of its hierarchical structure. The working class at the bottom are shrinking as are the upper class at the top. The middle class however are continuing their expansion that began hundred of years ago, well beyond expectation. So much so they now have a class structure all of their own.
Happy New Year – Welcome 2012 as a Creative Year to Remember
It is time to cast off old thinking and embrace the new. 2012 is a great place to start formulating ideas that will help invent and innovate the future.
Apollo, from the Earth to the Moon – Imagination & Knowledge
Ardent socialist and playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) lived a life of literary criticism dealing sternly with prevailing social issues, but with a lightness of touch that made stark realities palatable. He said ‘Imagination is at the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will’. The 60′s was the age of those who dared to dream a dream and then went out and made it happen.
TED -Technology, Entertainment, Design – Ideas to Talk About
When TED2011 took place at Long Beach, California delegates were talking, playing and listening to music, enjoying comedy and dance and much much more. They were emailing, blogging, tweeting, eating and networking while enjoying caffeine-fueled conversation between the program’s many sessions.
Progressing and maturing by fault, leadership for a new age
Progress hinges not on eradicating mistakes but on our success at perpetuating them? By making good mistakes we learn to forgive, progress and mature by fault
CLASSIC Artists & Artisans Day 20 Great Treasure Houses
Day 20 – England and its Great Treasure Houses King James II threw the Great Seal of England into the Thames and fled England when Dutch Protestant rulers William and Mary of Orange claimed the throne of England. Around 1688 some of the grandest architectural gestures in England occur, including Chatsworth, a country palace wholly [...]
The Code – Where Math & the Modern World Magically Converge
You will find number connections between trees and mountains, clouds and waterfalls, nautilus shells and cicadas and in the formation of the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, which became known to the wider world through a talk given at the Royal Society at London in 1693. BBC TV presenter Marcus du Sautoy who is gradually revealing and cracking simultaneously what he calls The Code, recently revisited this amazing natural phenomenon.
The Gough Map of Great Britain Medieval Miracle goes Digital
It is really only since the Victorian Age that early maps of the world went from being considered amusing relics of dark-age ignorance held up to public scorn and ridicule to being seen as an essential element in understanding the medieval world-view. They are important to anyone with an interest in the art, literature, philosophy and social structure of that time.
Countdown to Atlantis, Comic Con Phenomenon and, about Hope
The final Atlantis Space Shuttle Mission countdown is over. Atlantis has left Cape Canaveral to rendezvous in orbit with the space station above the earth for the final time. “Let’s light this fire one more time, Mike, and witness this great nation at its best,” said Christopher Ferguson, Atlantis commander, to launch director Mike Leinbach just before the lift-off of STS-135, 8 July 2011.
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