The Woman Who Smashed the Glass Ceiling

Today, Rachel Beer would be diagnosed as suffering from a nervous breakdown. But in 1903, the three doctors came to a radically different conclusion: the woman had clearly lost her mind. Her plight excited no interest, and within months it was as if she had never existed. Yet not only had Rachel been the very first female editor of a Fleet Street newspaper, but she had simultaneously edited both the Observer and the Sunday Times while also writing regular columns and conducting interviews that set the agenda for national debate. Another 80 years would elapse before another woman was (wrongly) hailed as the first female editor of a national paper.

Source: Daily Mail
Published: Apr 2, 2011
Length: 9 minutes (2,344 words)

Jonathan Ive: How Did a British Polytechnic Graduate Become Apple’s Design Genius?

It is hard to know what is the greater intrigue: recent conjecture that Ive is preparing to walk away from Apple to relocate to his beautiful Grade II-listed mansion in Somerset so his children can be educated in the UK (false—he is not, and the property is now standing empty); that he will step out of the shadows and assume Steve Jobs’ role when the great man stands down (highly doubtful); or what—or perhaps more accurately who—propelled him to leave for the U.S. in the first place and deny Britain the talents of one of the most influential designers of the modern age.

Author: Rob Waugh
Source: Daily Mail
Published: Mar 21, 2011
Length: 16 minutes (4,079 words)

Stephen Hawking: How to build a time machine

All you need is a wormhole, the Large Hadron Collider or a rocket that goes really, really fast

Source: Daily Mail
Published: May 3, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,138 words)