Rising to the challenge: 21st-century games of wit and endurance
Already finished Angry Birds: Star Wars and looking for a new challenge? Healthy competition comes in all shapes and sizes — and isn’t only to be found on a screen. Take on a few contenders in this selection of 21st-century games of wit and endurance, curated by Wired.
How Packaging-Free Supermarket Are Changing The Way We Shop
Bring your glass jars and paper bags. The idea of “waste not, want not” has been drummed into us since we were children. We were taught to finish our dinner before we had to get up off the table and throw the scraps in the bin. Even at most Australian primary schools, rubbish monitors made…
ADP PodCast Host
Together with 4 senior leaders from ADP Germany, we recorded 4 episodes on a muggy Frankfurt Summer’s day in the brilliant LOFT Studios in East Frankfurt, an up and coming creative media and tech hub. We didn’t see the sun for about 10 hours in the middle of the German heatwave. Listen to the Podcasts by…
My guest post on the formidable yesandyes blog: Why You Should Take A Career Sabbatical
A few months ago, I got in touch with the lovely Sarah, editor and founder of one of my favourite blogs yesandyes. After a bit of email badminton, she asked me to write a guest post on the benefits of embarking upon a career sabbatical. This post was inspired by my real-life post-GFC travels around…
Happy International Women’s Day
I had originally wanted to publish this post on International Women’s Day but since that date, I had some new inspirations which I found and so refined the piece. I also included some great web resources which I wanted to share. __________ I first remember celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD) back in primary school. During…
Health Buzz: Is our genetic map our destiny?
If we are to believe popular science, we are who we are because of our genes. Our appearance, our character traits, susceptibility to sickness or the speed at which we recover are all due to genetics. The relationship between genetics and body size is perhaps the most contentious. Researchers theworld over churn out results of…