We're discovering new species at an accelerating rate. The disposable cardboard glider or the living transport system? Not quite, they're something completely different.

Innovation, has become an important part of the political and business lexicon. But is our definition of innovation simply too technology focussed and too business-centric?

Would you like to extend your 'virtual self' beyond the grave? And could meeting your future self help change your current behaviour?

Social media is old enough now that it’s had to incorporate the reality of death: personal profiles are turned into memorial sites; recordings serve as a last avenue for goodbyes and images increasingly make us a witness to death itself.

From ultrasound screen shots to online memorial sites, the image reflects our future potential, our current existence and our memory.

Find out why play is not just unstructured activity and why we are so obsessed with time. And get some old advice for living in the modern world.

The ‘cult’ of happiness could be damaging to business performance and the sanity of employees. And research suggests that maintaining a level of pessimism in the workplace is actually beneficial to maintaining a corporate edge.

In which ways is poetry being used in the modern world? And can the very human quality of poetry survive the development of non-human poets?

We're all complicit in spreading ignorance. And unless we understand the forces that actively generate ignorance we have little hope of overcoming it.

Algae could be the food and fuel source of the future. And you can even make surfboards out of the stuff!