Carl Honore

Slow in the Ivory Tower

A compulsory course for all first-year university students on our relationship with time + technology?

Smart piece on how our obsession with speed, efficiency and throughput threatens to destroy the culture of higher learning.

In speedy China, the new rich are seeking to slow down. Is it just a fad for the affluent? Or the start of something deeper?

Some intriguing reflections on how we experience the passage of time + how we might shape that experience.

Why it’s good to own up to mistakes in order to learn from them. Medicine is a good place to start…

In this age of child obesity and inactivity, we need to promote ‘physical literacy’ more than ever. But let’s do so in the right spirit.

High-frequency trading makes financial markets dangerously and unproductively fast. Here’s one way to slow things down.

Intriguing idea. Can clocks that track the passage of the sun and the moon make us feel more relaxed about time itself?

Is science too fast? Maybe. Scientists need time to think, digest, make mistakes. Time for a Slow Science Manifesto:

The Lilliputians decide Gulliver’s watch must be his god because he consults it so obsessively. Today, that watch would be a smartphone.