Italian winemakers set their vineyards ablaze creating a fairytale glow across the landscape

Italian winemakers give the landscape a fairy-tale glow by placing hundreds of flaming torches among their vines to protect them against the coldest May temperatures in decades Winemakers in South Tyrol have been placing anti-frost torches among the vines to save their grapes The torches – called smudge pots – can raise the temperature by … Read more

Gareth Malone creating online singing group amid coronavirus crisis

Gareth Malone hopes his online singing group can help struggling artists to make money amid the worsening coronavirus crisis.    The famous choir master, 44, London,  appeared on This Morning where he opened up about his new project, after Dame Esther Rantzen, 79, who is self-isolating with her daughter, urged him to to get people together on Skype to … Read more

Show your work: Getting buy-in can be as simple as creating visuals

Big data projects need good visuals in order to garner stakeholders’ support. Image: Ridofranz, Getty Images/iStockphoto My first job—long before I was in IT—was as a literature teacher in an inner-city high school. It left an indelible impression on me about visualization, and its use is applicable to big data. I took over a high … Read more