I absolutely love this photo of a few of Canvas students being themselves during a photo scavenger hunt. They managed to find a guy in a spacesuit. Win. This pretty much sums it up. I can’t get enough of the Canvas community and their antics. Click the image for a larger view.

Recently, I read an article called Ten Things I Have Learned by a man named Milton Glaser, a graphic artist best known for creating the ‘I (heart) New York’ logo. It’s a brilliant article in a lot of ways, but one part in particular made me stop and consider. Here’s that section. What do you [...]

Prospect Magazine has done an interesting infographic on how Britain has changed since 1997: Richer, fatter, living longer, more indebted, drunker, better connected, politically disillusioned: there’s no metric that can describe whether we are happier or living better lives after 13 years of Labour. But there are plenty to show how we have changed during [...]

There is an interesting article in the recent edition of Redbrick, the University of Birmingham’s student newspaper about the history of Selly Oak. Selly Oak is an area adjacent to the University and is an important part of student housing and entertainment options. There definitely is more to this area than one might imagine at [...]

This week we’ve seen more snow than we’ve seen in a long time. In fact, this photo captures Great Britain from NASA’s Terra Satellite on the 7th of January. It’s amazing how frosty white it looks. We’re hearing on the radio that this is the coldest winter in 30 years, with some places seeing temperatures [...]