(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) In the early and middle half of the 20th Century, Paris found itself in the grip of a unique ferment. A Bohemian Group, paying tribute to a salacious existence, gallivanted between Parisian Cafes, and jazz concerts (when not hitting the dive bars), debated amongst themselves on seemingly abstruse concepts such as Being, … Continue reading At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being & Apricot Cocktails – Sarah Bakewell

(Image Credit: Penguin Random House) In 1967, J.A. Baker, an unpretentious individual from Essex, who left school at the age of sixteen to work, first with the Automobile Association, and subsequently, with the soft drink manufacturer, Britvic, wrote a slim volume titled The Peregrine. Subsequently attaining renown as one of the best books written on … Continue reading Look: How to Pay Attention in a Distracted World – Christian Madsbjerg

(Image Credit: The Sydney National Herald) Yemi Kale held the lofty designation of Statistician General of The National Bureau of Statistics in Nigeria in 2014. This designation was giving him sleepless nights. A three-year study had as its outcome, the extraordinarily startling fact of the Nigerian economy being a whopping 89% bigger than what economists … Continue reading The Growth Delusion: The Wealth & Well Being of Nations – David Pilling

In the year 2006, a company boasting the imaginative name of “Magnequench” shut down its plant at Valparaiso to begin operations anew, 2703 miles (give or take a mile) away – in Tianjin. This move, at the time, was non-descript and inconspicuous both in terms of publicity and reaction. The fact that Magnequench was the … Continue reading The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy & Digital Technologies – Guillaume Pitron