Archive - What a piece of Work is Man!

Echoes of the Past, Voices of the Future: The Dance Between Tradition and Innovation

A reflection on human agency in shaping innovation and cultural evolution

Jun 2 •

May 2025

The Spark of the Modern Age: Alessandro Volta and the Birth of the Battery

When the silent forces of nature met a daring mind, the world found the power to move beyond its limits.

May 3 •

April 2025

The Blinking Cursor: The Ingenious Pulse Between Mind and Machine

How one engineer’s problem solving genius transformed silent screens into living extensions of human thought.

Apr 25 •

Salt and the Civilised Mind

When biology met imagination, a mineral became the engine of history.

Apr 5 •

March 2025

A Technological Wonderland: The Miracles of Invention and Discovery

An unabashed tribute to what modern life owes to progress in science and engineering.

Mar 15 •

February 2025

The Universe as Our Canvas: From Taming Earth to Tracing Time Itself

Humanity has turned nature into its masterpiece, crafting civilizations, rewriting landscapes, and now proving events that took place even before we…

Feb 14 •

January 2025

From Lab to Life: The Ingenious Science Revolutionizing Cancer Care

Humanity’s ability to understand, prevent, and treat diseases represents one of its most outstanding achievements.

Jan 25 •

Water and human ingenuity: the flow of progress

Liquid intelligence has always been and remains the foundation of human civilisation

Jan 17 •

December 2024

Social media is not the problem.

Blaming social media for society’s ills is as silly as blaming big refrigerators for childhood obesity.

Dec 21, 2024 •

November 2024

Fire Part III: The creation of the Sun on Earth

The quest to develop thermonuclear fusion is the apogee of humanity’s ongoing struggle to control and utilise fire and energy

Nov 17, 2024 •

October 2024

Pompei, Herculaneum and Paestum: The enduring authority of the past

Ancient civilisations still illuminate what a piece of work man truly is.

Oct 28, 2024 •

Fire part II: The ignition of progress

The use of heat in the refining of crude oil represents one of the greatest single revolutions in the history of the human application of energy

Oct 15, 2024 •

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