"It’s hard not to be optimistic. It’s also hard not to be cynical, particularly if you’ve been ground down by the real…"

"It seems to me that what we have right now is the ability to build new, amazing, unprecedented tools to accomplish pa…"

"The second core problem is that, because of its success and ubiquity, we tend to see digital computing as the only su…"

"Third, where is the intentionality in our new tools? Each application is built to achieve a single goal: to predict h…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"

"In 1973, Roger Deakin, a British writer and environmental activist, acquired a tumbledown sixteenth-century farmhouse…"

"Islam is a terminal cancer for the West; it must be eradicated before the metastases spread to Italy."