Archive - Kelly Oakes

Modern life is rubbish

How your leftovers and not-so-compostable coffee cups are destroying the planet, and some ways we might be able to put it back together again.

Mar 14, 2020 •

March 2019

The comparison trap

Social media and body image, extracting water out of thin air, and what hit Uranus?

Mar 30, 2019 •

February 2019

In defence of Instagram and space elevators

Digital hoarding, getting to space without a rocket, and everything you never wanted to know about fatbergs.

Feb 12, 2019 •

October 2018

All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey

Earth and other alien planets, plus women with ADHD, and some happy Nobel prize news for once.

Oct 2, 2018 •

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