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Articles by Kazim Ladimeji

I am a practising HR consultant working with several start-ups on an ongoing and ad-hoc basis in the London and M4 area, and am a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development or CIPD. I am the Director of thecareercafe.co.uk; thecareercafe.co.uk is a resource for start-ups and small business. It includes a blog containing career advice, small business advice articles, HR software reviews, and contains great resources such as HR Productivity Apps.

Medieval

Medieval Autumn Harvest And Survival

Medieval food science was grounded in the doctrine of ‘The four Humours’.


Place names

Decoding Our Place Names

Our place names provide a window into the country’s history.


Earth

The Nine Days That Earth Shook

Around this time last year, a mysterious 9-day-long seismic signal sent vibrations through the Earth, baffling the world’s top seismologists.


Salmon

Why Do Salmon Swim Upstream?

It is a journey that seems to be an extreme course of action without obvious justification!


The Harvest Moon

The Harvest Moon

In earlier times, farmers took full advantage of the Harvest Moon’s extended moonlight, which enabled them to continue harvesting crops late into the evening.


Colonising

Could We Be Colonising Planets In Future?

Colonising would require advances in propulsion systems, biomes, genetic engineering, bio-adaption, off-world agriculture and exo-nutrition.


Big Bang

The First Few Seconds Of The Big Bang

In recent times, scientists at the University of Copenhagen have yielded more detailed insights into the first milliseconds of the universe following the Big Bang by using the Hadron Collider.


The Trojan Horse

The Trojan Horse: Fact And Fiction?

This idea or myth was mentioned in The Odyssey by Homer, who was one of the greatest of the Ancient Greek Poets.


G-forces

G-Forces – For The Holiday…

Astronauts returning from a gravity free, zero-G environment, have reported on returning to the 1-G Earth environment, actively feeling gravity pulling their arms and feet down.


Solar maximum

What Is Solar Maximum?

Roughly every 11 years, the Sun’s magnetic fields flip, and the Sun’s North and South poles switch places.


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