Richard Preston: Climbing the world’s biggest trees

Science writer Richard Preston talks about some of the most enormous living beings on the planet, the giant trees of the US Pacific Northwest. Growing from a tiny seed, they support vast ecosystems and are still, largely, a mystery.

Seeing and Believing

They say that seeing is believing but sometimes when you’re just starting out in business you have to mentally put the cart before the horse and believe in yourself long before you see the reward of good results from all your hard labour …

Packing a Punch

Small is good if that’s how you roll. Infact in business, small can be beautiful and practical too. It’s no flat-footed giant with weight issues. It’s not a discreditable green-skinned hulk with high blood pressure whenever his pulse rate goes through the roof either …

Tea Strainer

People like me who drink strong tea, drink it because we like it that way plain and simple. When people who make us tea but don’t like it that way themselves, leave the teabag in, we can sort of understand why you do that …

Jill Bolte Taylor: Stroke of Insight

Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions: motion, speech, self-awareness shut down one by one.

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