There’s no doubt that this pandemic is revealing deep fractures that have long persisted in society and is further exacerbating the economic divide. However, alongside this we are also seeing…
This event took place on 14 March 2020 and was our first Gentle Thinker Insight talk, a new series of talks inviting people with curious minds and rigorous research to…
This month, we are examining…idleness! Idleness represents both a coveted luxury (idleness as spare time), yet also carries a stigma few are willing to claim without risking judgment (idleness as…
Our choices between saving the environment and saving a bit of time, money or effort present us with constant challenges. How will we be commuting to work this year? Will…
70 years ago, a major leap of civilisation took place: Germany’s parliament adopted the Basic Law and enshrined in its first Article that human dignity shall be inviolable. In today’s…
Vaccine hesitancy has been identified by the World Health Organisation as one of the top ten threats to global health in 2019 [i]. At the same time, measles rates are…
It is convenient for us to blame Trump-style populism for the noisy post-truth[1] era we now need to navigate. However, we’ve also learnt that it’s not particularly constructive to view…