On gender-neutral language

Despite being a relatively small issue, this one's important to me. Hopefully I'll explain why and what you can do to address it too. An (imperfect) example that fellow nerds will be very familiar with is: To boldly go where no-one has gone before You'll recognise that as part of the Star Trek: The Next Generation opening …

Ad astra

Neil Armstrong died on August 25th 2012, aged 82. A good innings, but we're still shocked and saddened. Why? It's always sad when people, amazing or no, pass away. But there's more to this than simply the ending of a life. His footprints will be on the moon for around 10 million years. Footprints of …