Nightwalks
In love with the hours when it's neither one day nor the next
Superstore Wilderness Vol 1, March 2023
Strangers are a good route to happiness
Little interchanges can significantly boost our well-being
Época Negócios Brazil, October 2022
(originally published in Portuguese)
Gen Z can teach us to think about our mental health
Their reluctance to take up jobs should be a wake-up call for all of us in work
Época Negócios Brazil, July 2022
(originally published in Portuguese)
Self-knowledge is good for companies too
The Johari Window can throw light on how organisations are seen and see themselves
Época Negócios Brazil, August 2022
(originally published in Portuguese)
How do we know what is “true”?
Technology is challenging our ideas about fact and fiction
Época Negócios Brazil, June 2022
(originally published in Portuguese)
Let’s think again about certainty
Ambivalence is making a comeback
Época Negócios Brazil, May 2022
(originally published in Portuguese)
A different way to have meetings
A long-awaited reunion prompts new thoughts about getting together at work
Época Negócios Brazil, April 2022
(originally published in Portuguese)
Should we be happy at work?
Why happiness is underrated in the workplace
Época Negócios Brazil, March 2022
(originally published in Portuguese)
The Wired World in 2022
Smart, informed predictions for the year ahead
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Published November 2021
The Wired World in 2021
Smart, informed predictions for the year ahead
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Published November 2020
The Wired World in 2020
Smart, informed predictions for the year ahead
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Published November 2019
The Wired World in 2019
Smart, informed predictions for the year ahead
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Published November 2018
The Illusionists
Conjurors and neuroscientists are helping us understand the human brain
Wired, March 2019
Time for some constructive pessimism
We need to rethink our attitude to stuff going wrong
Vida Simples Brazil, June 2018
(originally published in Portuguese)
Vertical farms are reinventing agriculture
From dressing-free salad to tasty peaches on demand, is this the future of food?
Wired, March 2018
Can we reinvent the internet?
Monopolies. Cybercrime. 'Fake news'. Even the internet's founders admit their utopian vision has failed. So, what if we could start again?
Wired, January 2018
Emotional intelligence and technology
Why tech is threatening our inner lives
Vida Simples Brazil, January 2018
(originally published in Portuguese)
The Wired World in 2018
Smart, informed predictions for the year ahead
Editor
Published November 2017
A wiser approach to work/life balance
Forget the time management, it's all about attitude
Vida Simples Brazil, October 2016
(originally published in Portuguese)
Can there be too much gentrification?
Rising prices mean neighbourhoods lose their vibe
BBC Online magazine, 11 October 2016
Torah and technology
Israel's ultraorthodox Jews are getting jobs as coders
BBC Online magazine, 9 September 2016
Snapping prices in real time
A Silicon Valley company is improving lives in the developing world
Wired, April 2016
Rediscovering the real us
OPINION: Our online life is damaging our identity
BBC Magazine, 1 April 2016
My London
A personal take on the greatest city in the world
Viagem Brazil, June 2015
(originally published in Portuguese)
Dancing against prejudice
‘All those theories about Brazil being a country of mixing, that’s a lie’
Financial Times magazine, March 28 2014
Face to face: Cildo Meireles
The acclaimed Brazilian artist is still defying convention
Financial Times, 28 March 2014
Nearly, but not quite
David Baker set off to conquer the Atlas mountains. He almost succeeded
Four Seasons magazine, Spring 2014
Life unplugged
Twenty-one days without the internet
Info Exame Brazil, March 2014
(originally published in Portuguese)
Training to be a divemaster
Six years ago, an underwater panic attack ended David Baker’s love affair with diving. Could he really train to be a divemaster?
Financial Times magazine, February 28 2014
Pilotless planes
Why there'll soon be no need for the man at the front Wired, December 2013 A black and red twin-propped Jetstream 31, registration G-BWWW, sits at BAE Systems' private airfield at Warton, near Preston. It
Everything connected
The internet of things promises to transform the world. But are we risking our privacy, security and freedom? Wired, July 2013 Last year when Sydney-resident Evan Predavec, former MD of Lexis Asia-Pacific, went on holiday
The Euro supercar
Rimac's $1m electric car is 50 per cent faster than Tesla's Roadster. But can it overtake its rivals? Wired, April 2013 Croatian entrepreneur Mate Rimac, 25, is sitting behind the wheel of
Take my hand
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Meet the aural designer
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]Emar Vegt composes the click of a BMW's door and tunes
The cab conductor: reading Hailo’s success story
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]Jay Bregman has launched his cab-hailing startup Hailo in nine cities -- and
Real needs, real people
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]Can Silicon Valley solve Africa's water problem? Scott Harrison is on
Into the deep
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]We know more about space than we do about the ocean. That
Mathemusician brings dull lessons to life
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]'Maths is cool,' says Vi Hart, 'but it's taught all wrong'
Financing a satellite by selling t-shirts
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]Korean artist Song Hojun is on a one-man mission to enter
AI wants nurses to earn more than bankers
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]The high-paying jobs will be the ones robots can't do
Children’s programming
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]Meet 12-year-old app developer Puck Meerburg
Hackfest by the sea
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]Israel's GeekCon is the irreverent tech meetup that emphasises fun and
Wired’s tech cities: Tel Aviv
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]Israel's technology exports hit $28.5 billion in 2010. Here is the
Mozilla vs King Corporate
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]Firefox's open-source evangelists take up arms in a battle of the
The chocolate scientists
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]The founder of Wired and a former Space Shuttle coder are
Impatience, Grasshopper
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]The inventor of the Corpus Clock is in a hurry to
Take me off the shelf
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]A new library lets readers borrow people for a chat. David Baker
The unkindest cut of all?
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]Critics say that male circumcision is unnecessary and barbaric. Advocates claim
Corporate communes
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]In the 1960s they shared Marxism, meals and love. Today's communards are
Where hunger throws a harsh light on indulgence
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]David Baker is taught an unexpected lesson at the easternmost point of
‘I wouldn’t say I was a believer’
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]Despite a dispiriting experience as a nun, Karen Armstrong is happy
When life keeps getting louder
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]Police sirens, thumping music, loud neighbours – noise is no longer
Land of my fathers
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="solid" padding="0" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="0" animation_direction="down" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]It took David Baker 40 years to get to Israel, but
Sins of immersion
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]Olympic Man, Floral Woman and unwashed bodies all help to fuel
Full moon by the sea
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]For centuries, Hoi An has been a well-loved jewel of Vietnam
Two wheels good
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]Bicycles are cheap, healthy and good for the environment. So why
Scallops in the morning
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]After Enrica Rocca's Borough Market Day, shopping, cooking and eating will
Wheel of fortune
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]The science of theme parks: forget end-of-the-pier distractions, the modern amusement
The Russian ee! (and ow! and ouch! and arghh!) rooms
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]New Yorkers are finding Russian reinvigoration – with a brain-frying, muscle-twisting detox
‘A pebble on the beach of history’
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]How Iranians see their part in Persia's 2,500-year story
Riddle of the sands
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]No sex. No drugs. No flesh. No alcohol. Why would anyone
Death on the road
[one_full last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""]How life can change in an instant