Work-wise there have been many losers during the pandemic. A lot of people have lost jobs, though others have successfully adapted to new roles within their respective industries. There have been some who have actively benefited from the current situation, in fact....
In the long history of the Nobel Prize there have been 2 refusals from its chosen recipients. Refusals potentially carry as much if not more weight than that of the prize itself. To take a stand against such an established cultural institution promotes the award...
Home education, once viewed as an unusual, or even fringe method of education, has, at least for a while, become the norm for the vast majority of parents and children across the country. Since schools closed and the lockdown began, parents have suddenly found...
This article follows on from that published on the history of the Nobel Prizes, which can be found by following the link here. According to the Last Will and Testament of Alfred Nobel, the Peace Prize is awarded to the person or persons who, in the preceding year,...
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...
