Posts by laurasan

Soft White Potato Bread

Published in

Lifestyle
You will need:  One 1.5kg bag of strong white flour (organic and stone-ground is best) 2 teaspoons of salt (ideally sea-salt – for flavour, and you need a little less)…

Upcycling fun

Published in

Fashion
Some notes for you: • All seam allowances are ¼ inch and included in the pattern measurements.   • All stitches are straight stitches.   • I’m using long length…
Image © Aurelyen

Hands, Spirit, Heart

Published in

2012, Back Issues
  Fashion has truly come of age. No longer content simply to create looks that open people’s eyes, there is a growing tribe of socially aware designers who are seeking…

Undersea Magic

Published in

2012
    Sublime: How and when did you start exploring the underwater world, and narrating your experiences through photography? Troy Mayne: I started diving when I was 19. My first…

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Published in

Art & Culture
What’s 17 times 24? You probably can’t be bothered to work out the answer. The part of the brain necessary is what Daniel Kahneman calls System 2, the ‘thinking’ bit…

The Lean Startup

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Art & Culture
This book by self-confessed start-up failure Eric Ries seeks to destroy the myth of the Great Man; the Richard Bransons and Mark Zuckerbergs. What Ries – who eventually led his…
Images©Ricardo Zura-Lara

A Flowering Power

Published in

2011, Back Issues
Camila Vallejo is leading the fight on education in Chile, and the eradication of the neoliberal approach that dictates her country’s higher education system. She is also a razor-sharp communicator,…
Images©Piotr Naskrecki

Finders, Keepers

Published in

2011, Back Issues
Polish-born entomologist, photographer, author and founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP), Piotr Naskrecki is known for his scientific peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, as well as…

Start With Why

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Art & Culture
For Simon Sinek, the reason is simple: Jobs inspired people because he was clear about the ‘why’, or what it was that made him get out of bed each morning. …