Editor-in-Chief Tomi Haffety connects a Philip Glass concert to the diversity of experience in London. Sitting in the Barbican theatre listening to the second of the six movements that comprise Philip Glass’ most accessible work, ‘Glassworks’, I experienced something of a renewed appreciation for my life in London and decided that I had to find…
Author: Tomi Haffety
Jason Dittmer on Michael Jordan, why he feels ‘reasonably optimistic’, and his appointment as Head of Geography
Editor-in-Chief Tomi Haffety gets to know UCL Geography’s Head of Department in true 2020 fashion via a Zoom interview. 2020 has been a strange year for everyone. Returning to university, whether remotely or back in London, has not been the experience that we hoped we would have when UCL closed abruptly in March. Participating in…
There was a supercontinent called Pangea
Tomi Haffety reviews Lewis Dartnell’s 2019 book ‘Origins’ and argues that now is a better time than ever to appreciate the human connections to nature. Reading Origins, I struggled to comprehend the age of our planet. At 4.5 billion years old, Earth has accommodated climactic changes, continental drift and mass migration of both humans and…
The Bloomsbury Geographer 