Twenty-one-year-old British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason first won attention aged 17 as the first black musician to win the prestigious BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. Now, thanks to the so-called “Sheku effect”, a new generation Read More …
A mystery benefactor has been handing out “surprise bags” (wundertüete) of money—more than €200,000—for local causes in the German city of Brunswick. The bags have been appearing at regional newspaper the Braunschweiger Zeitung with instructions on which charity Read More …
“In Europe, we throw out so many things,” says Martine Postma, long frustrated by our throwaway culture. “I wanted to do something about it.” What she did was to open the first Repair Café in Amsterdam, a social Read More …
“A scientific worldview which does not profoundly come to terms with the problem of conscious minds can have no serious pretensions of completeness. Conciousness is part of our universe, so any physical theory which makes no proper place for Read More …
The sound of bad news ricocheting around the world is deafening. Every news medium has a klaxon reverberating loudly, each one looking to outdo the other, with a story even worse than the last one. We’re told we Read More …
There was more positive news regarding plastic waste, with the announcement that a new super-enzyme has been developed to eat plastic rubbish. It’s not the first time an enzyme has been found to munch through plastic, but the Read More …
The Time Well Spent movement, is striving to help us break our dependency, and in many cases addiction to technology, in order that we can focus on the more meaningful aspects of being human. Far too many of us Read More …
There are numerous therapies and psychological interventions that are busily trying to validate their efficacy, using evidence-based practice. This is because increasingly the question of value for money and cost effectiveness has found its way into the psychological Read More …
In this section of the site, it is our aim to put practice-based evidence more prominently on the map. At Reach we do not believe that evidence-based practice is sufficient for helping the psychological traditions to arrive at best Read More …
Quantum mechanics shows us that particles are in superposition, meaning they can exist in different states and even multiple places at the same time. They are nothing more than waves of probabilities, until the moment that they are measured. One Read More …
