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Plants to the rescue?

Written by Peter Edwards Editor, Global Cement Magazine
15 August 2023

I recently caught an episode of the new BBC epic documentary series Earth. It tells the story of our planet - from the early solar system to the present day. That’s a lot of ground to cover. The episode I stumbled upon looked at the emergence of land plants - and the potentially planet-ending series of events they might yet lead to.

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Do you have analysis paralysis?

Written by Peter Edwards Editor, Global Cement Magazine
19 June 2023

In the 1990s the UK had four TV channels, five or six flavours of crisp (chip) and three flavours of ice cream - vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. Now in the 2020s, potential options have ballooned 100-fold. There are 480 terrestrial TV channels,1 from ‘Aaj Tak’ to ‘Zing’ - with near infinite streaming on top. Meanwhile, Crisp Nation2 provides names for more than 600 branded crisp products - that it is aware of - from ‘Parsnip & Manuka Honey’ to ‘Guinness Rich Beef Chilli.’ I couldn’t find an equivalent ice cream list, but one can now sample ‘Cloudwater Chocolate Stout’ ice cream and ‘Seaweed Sorbet,’ which looks as unappetising as it sounds.3

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10 take-home lessons from a ‘trip-of-a-lifetime.’

Written by Robert McCaffrey Editorial Director, Global Cement
22 May 2023

I have recently completed what I called my ‘trip-ofa- lifetime,’ a two week trek around the Annapurna Circuit1 in Nepal. I made the most of the trip and visited a Nepalese cement plant at the end of the trek (see page 64). I thought I would share some of the ‘learnings’ that I brought back with me at the end of the trip.

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Looking back at alternative history...

Written by Peter Edwards. Editor, Global Cement Magazine
19 April 2023

Irecently bought a magazine with a picture of John F Kennedy on it. He was artificially aged to his mid- 60s with the words ‘What if...’ writ large above him. It was a striking image. I liked the premise and almost ran with it to the check-out. I had chanced upon What if... Book of Alternative History, which asks historians to imagine plausible alternative timelines in which major events are altered at a single ‘fork in the road.’ It makes for an interesting series of thought experiments.

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Are musicians born or raised?

Written by Peter Edwards. Editor, Global Cement Magazine
21 March 2023

I recently came across ‘Guitar Zero,’ a book by Gary Marcus about whether musicians are born or raised. It follows the author’s own experience of learning to play the guitar - a lifelong dream - at the ‘grand old age’ of 38. Despite trying and failing many times before, Marcus applies his expertise as a cognitive scientist to work around his limitations, with great success. Along the way, he takes in detours into musical theory, popular psychology, teaching methods, the ageing process and the nature of music itself.

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