Category: The Wind Down
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Wind Down 19th Jun 2023
Learn to change your mindProfessor Irene Tracey, the current vice-chancellor of Oxford University has said that students need to learn how to change their minds to ensure free speech is protected. She has presided over an incredibly “intense period” of much conflict at Oxford Union, who does enjoy a controversial speaking engagement and a good…
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Wind Down 12th Jun 2023
English Universal Basic Income TrialsEngland is set to have its first Universal Basic Income Trial, Autonmy is looking for funding to support its 2-year proposal with a trial in the North East and London. The pilot is for 30 people to be paid £1,600 per month as a basic income to understand how it will…
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Wind Down 5th Jun 2023
Please recycle less but betterA seemingly odd request when the world is simultaneously on fire and drowning, but it’s true. An excellent piece in the Inews has called out that people will be advised to recycle less as part of the Government overhaul to waste management. Termed “wishcycling” a lot of things that end up…
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Wind Down 29th May 2023
WhatsApp edit function goes globalRumour has it you can now edit your WhatsApp messages, I’ve not tried it but apparently this week Meta announced it would start rolling out the edit functionality globally the coming weeks, “From correcting a simple misspelling to adding extra context to a message, we’re excited to bring you more control…
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Wind Down 22nd May 2023
How do you feel about AI?BT announced this week that will be reducing staff numbers by up to 50,000 employees by 2030 and estimates 10,000 of those jobs will be replaced by AI and while not all because AI can replace humans, but that better infrastructure requires less maintenance, so this is not simply AI…
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Wind Down 15th May 2023
100% mortgages are backIf you didn’t read that & hear the voice, then there is something wrong with you. Anyway, Skipton Building Society have opened a no deposit, unguarantored product aimed solely at renters looking to make the move to home ownership. I already know what a certain generation think without even having to ask,…
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Wind Down 8th May 2023
Life aboard the Great Pacific Garbage PatchSo it turns out thousands of marine creatures called nuestons have unexpectedly hitching a ride across the ocean on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a patch of human made debris that stretches for hundreds and thousands of square miles in the North Pacific. Species including a violet sea snail,…
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Wind Down 1st May 2023
Real life SuccessionAbsolutely no spoilers about the fate of Waystar Royco but it’s hard to say how much more the Murdoch Empire can withstand, and while I desperately wanted to see Dominion Voting Systems squash Fox News like a tiny little bug in open court, I can understand why they took the settlement, you’d like…
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Wind Down 17th Apr 2023
Rock Dad gets his EagletIn March you could barely move online for the news of a 31 year old bald eagle called Murphy and his rock, because the World Bird Sanctuary had to put a sign on Murphys enclosure explaining to passers-by not to be alarmed if Murphy was on the ground, that it was…
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Wind Down 3rd Apr 2023
Say what you see: Is University Challenge biased?Currently on its 52nd series and its 61st year on air the question has finally been asked, is University Challenge biased towards the Oxbridge Institution? Spoiler alert: They’re not hiding it, but kudos to Frank Coffield emeritus professor of education at University College London for putting in that…
Rachael McKelvey 