Little Atoms Weekly round-up (the May Day madness edition)
This week we looked at the workers of the world unitng round the corner from our office, what Nigeria's recent peacful election means for democracy in Africa, how internet speak is changing language, why Swiss authorities arrested a bot. We also chatted to two great science writers in our Wellcome Book Prize special.
May Day 2015: the vanguard of the proletariat in pictures!
Every May Day, assorted socialists, communists and anarchists gather to celebrate the struggle on Clerkenwell Green, a two-minute walk from Little Atoms HQ.
Belfast university Charlie Hebdo conference WILL go ahead
Victory for academic freedom as cancelled symposium is reinstated
Charlie Hebdo: why is solidarity so difficult for some writers?
In their refusal to stand in solidarity with the victims of the "Assassin's Veto", writers have turned their back on a simple concept.
Why did Swiss police arrest an algorithm?
Artists !Mediengruppe Bitnik created a bot that crawled the dark net buying whatever it could find and ended up with a fake passport, knock-off trainers and ten ecstasy pills.
What Nigeria’s peaceful transition means for Africa
The continent’s most populous country is setting an example that could see a wave of democratic peaceful elections.
Listen to our interview with the winner of the Wellcome Book Prize Marion Coutts (before the annoucement) and fellow shortlister Henry Marsh about science in litterature.
Ten phrases that escaped from the internet
Jamie Bartlett, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, looks at how the virtual has become reality in a round-up of the top ten internet words that have infiltrated language.
