# Adam Stoner > Adam Stoner is a multi-award-winning podcast producer making ambitious, story-led shows on location for broadcasters, brands and cultural organisations. Adam Stoner is a multi-award-winning podcast producer based in the United Kingdom. Where most podcasts are made in studios, he makes them on location: castles, working woodland, moving trains. He works end to end — development, recording, editing, sound design and publishing. This file is a plain-text index of everything on adamstoner.com, generated from the site itself. ## Key facts - Role: podcast producer, working on location rather than in studio. Based in the United Kingdom. - *Mission Transmission* was Adam's idea and he produced it: in February 2022, the first radio programme beamed into deep space, broadcast live from the Royal Observatory Greenwich for Fun Kids, the UK's children's radio station. Guinness World Records adjudicated it on the night and recognised the record. It won Gold for Creative Innovation at 2023's Audio Academy/Radio Academy ARIAS awards and Silver for Moment of The Year. - At the 2026 Audio Academy ARIAS, shows he produces were nominated in two categories: Great Escapes for Radio Times Moment of the Year, and the Historic Scotland Podcast for Best Commercial Partnership. - Sectors: heritage and culture, rail and travel, forestry and the outdoors, children's audio, science journalism. - Named clients and partners: Great Western Railway, Historic Environment Scotland, Forestry England, Fun Kids, The Week Junior, Legion Scotland, the Audio Academy, Think Publishing, Future Publishing. - He writes the monthly Mysteries of Science column for The Week Junior Science+Nature, a science magazine for children. Every column is republished in full on this site. - He builds and runs web projects: Schooldates, which holds term dates for every school in the UK (26,151 establishments, 8.9 million pupils); alphaguess, a daily word game with 300,000+ players; and weeknotes, a tool for writing one note a week. - Contact: - Elsewhere: , , , ## Pages - [Adam Stoner](https://adamstoner.com/): Adam Stoner is a multi-award-winning podcast producer making ambitious, story-led shows on location for broadcasters, brands and cultural organisations. - [About](https://adamstoner.com/about/): Adam Stoner is a multi-award-winning podcast producer who makes story-led shows on location — castles, trains, forests, and once, deep space. - [Activity Quest](https://adamstoner.com/activity-quest/): Activity Quest, a chart-topping children's podcast about days out, made at Fun Kids — museums, theme parks and things to do reviewed by the people who go. - [Audio Academy](https://adamstoner.com/audio-academy/): Adam Stoner handles external communications for the Audio Academy, formerly The Radio Academy — the charity behind the ARIAS and the UK audio industry. - [Dino Quest](https://adamstoner.com/dino-quest/): Dino Quest, a children's podcast made at Fun Kids in which Lauren and Cassius build the perfect dinosaur, one real fossil feature at a time. - [Forestry England Podcast](https://adamstoner.com/forestry-england-podcast/): The Forestry England Podcast with Bex Lindsay, recorded on location in England's working woodlands — the people, wildlife and machinery of the nation's forests. - [Fun Kids](https://adamstoner.com/fun-kids/): Adam Stoner's work at Fun Kids, the UK's children's radio station — chart-topping podcasts and Mission Transmission. - [Great Escapes](https://adamstoner.com/great-escapes/): Great Escapes with Isy Suttie and Dan Skinner, a podcast produced by Adam Stoner and supported by Great Western Railway. - [Historic Scotland Podcast](https://adamstoner.com/historic-scotland-podcast/): The Historic Scotland Podcast with Sarah MacGillivray, produced on location at Scotland's monuments for Historic Environment Scotland. - [Kurodoko](https://adamstoner.com/kurodoko/): A new 5x5 Kurodoko every day. Shade black squares so each number counts the white cells in its line of sight. Also known as Kuromasu. - [Mission Transmission](https://adamstoner.com/mission-transmission/): In February 2022 Adam Stoner produced Mission Transmission, the first radio programme ever beamed into deep space, live from the Royal Observatory Greenwich. - [Mysteries of Science](https://adamstoner.com/mysteries-of-science/): Mysteries of Science, the podcast and monthly Science+Nature column in which Adam Stoner and the team investigate the unexplained for kids aged 8 to 11. - [Now](https://adamstoner.com/now/): What Adam Stoner is working on right now – new episodes of the Historic Scotland Podcast, recording Dino Quest, and the Audio Academy Festival. - [Photos](https://adamstoner.com/photos/): Photographs from Adam Stoner's work and week: on location with presenters and crew, in the field, and at the desk. Every photo links back to its story. - [Schooldates](https://adamstoner.com/schooldates/): Schooldates holds term dates for every school in the UK – 26,151 establishments covering 8.9 million pupils, each date carrying the source it came from. - [Stostone](https://adamstoner.com/stostone/): A new 6x6 Stostone every day. Shade one stone in every room, keep stones apart, then drop them to fill the bottom half of the grid. - [Tatamibari](https://adamstoner.com/tatamibari/): A new 6x6 Tatamibari every day. Cut the grid into rectangles, one symbol in each, shaped exactly as that symbol says. - [Tentai Show](https://adamstoner.com/tentai-show/): A new 9x9 Tentai Show every day. Divide the grid into galaxies, each one symmetrical around a single dot at its centre. Also known as Spiral Galaxies. - [The Week Junior Show](https://adamstoner.com/the-week-junior-show/): The Week Junior Show, a chart-topping news podcast for children made at Fun Kids — the week's biggest stories explained for eight to twelve year olds. - [Uses](https://adamstoner.com/uses/): The software, microphones, bags and everyday carry a working on-location podcast producer actually uses. Nothing sponsored, no affiliate links. - [Writing](https://adamstoner.com/writing/): Everything Adam Stoner has published: columns for The Week Junior Science+Nature, features, essays and notes going back to 2015. - [Yajilin](https://adamstoner.com/yajilin/): A new 6x6 Yajilin every day. Shade the cells the arrows count, then draw a single closed loop through everything that is left. - [alphaguess](https://adamstoner.com/alphaguess/): alphaguess is a daily word game with more than 300,000 monthly players. Guess the word of the day; each guess reveals where it sits alphabetically. - [idle minutes](https://adamstoner.com/idle-minutes/): idle minutes is a collection of free daily word games and Japanese logic puzzles, built and run by Adam Stoner. Eight puzzles, no account needed. - [weeknotes](https://adamstoner.com/weeknotes/): weeknotes is a small tool by Adam Stoner for writing one note a week about what you did and what might be next. One note, once a week, nothing more. - [wordrune](https://adamstoner.com/wordrune/): wordrune is a daily word puzzle: drag twelve letter tiles to spell connected words, and use every one of them for the pangram bonus. ## Writing Every piece published on the site, newest first. The columns marked as first published in The Week Junior Science+Nature are written for children. - [Shooting film in Scotland](https://adamstoner.com/shooting-film-in-scotland/) — 14 September 2026: Photos from Scotland last winter, shot on Kodak Ektar 160, left in a drawer for seven months and finally developed by Take It Easy Lab in Leeds. - [The rise of humans](https://adamstoner.com/the-rise-of-humans/) — 12 September 2026: We are not the strongest, fastest or fiercest animal on Earth. So how did humans end up running the planet? The answer is teamwork, imagination and stories. - [In the Historic Scotland magazine](https://adamstoner.com/historic-scotland-magazine/) — 1 September 2026: Sarah MacGillivray has written about the Historic Scotland Podcast for the Autumn 2026 members magazine, and it is out now for members to read. - [Going South](https://adamstoner.com/going-south/) — 29 August 2026: How Great Escapes gets made: two comedians, a train timetable, and the discipline of getting out of the way. A photo essay from two series on the road. - [Automating the boring](https://adamstoner.com/automating-the-boring/) — 28 August 2026: I like making audio and hate the admin around it. Notes on a system that transcribes and drafts the copy. Automating the typing is fine, the content is not. - [The Big Bang](https://adamstoner.com/big-bang/) — 14 August 2026: Nobody believes it started with a bang. How we know what happened 13.8 billion years ago, why it is named after a joke, and the pigeon poo that got the blame. - [Luck](https://adamstoner.com/luck/) — 17 July 2026: Rugby player Ben Thomas keeps his gum shield in his boot for luck. A psychologist explains why children believe in luck from the age of four. - [Revisiting 10 predictions for 2023](https://adamstoner.com/revisiting-10-predictions-for-2023/) — 21 June 2026: Ten predictions I made in 2019, revisited. GPT-4.5 passed the Turing test in 2025, but high-street travel agents and meat are holding on. - [The Cottingley Fairies](https://adamstoner.com/the-cottingley-fairies/) — 18 June 2026: In 1917 two cousins took five photographs of fairies at the bottom of the garden, and even Arthur Conan Doyle believed them. Written for children. - [Harry Styles at Wembley](https://adamstoner.com/harry-styles-at-wembley/) — 17 June 2026: Seeing Harry Styles at Wembley Stadium on the Together, Together tour, one of twelve nights he played there in summer 2026. - [Field Journal and Dino Quest](https://adamstoner.com/field-journal-and-dino-quest/) — 13 June 2026: Emailing authors and academics about two new Fun Kids podcasts, Field Journal and Dino Quest, plus a morning at the Eden Project in St Austell. - [Bricks & Minifigs](https://adamstoner.com/bricks-minifigs/) — 5 June 2026: A week of meetings and souring weather, plus the Bricks and Minifigs drama on YouTube: Reckless Ben chasing $200k of stolen LEGO Star Wars sets. - [It's hot out](https://adamstoner.com/it-s-hot-out/) — 30 May 2026: Two episodes of Great Escapes edited, a new Hard mode added to alphaguess, and plenty of time spent enjoying the 30 degree UK weather. - [Birthday](https://adamstoner.com/birthday/) — 24 May 2026: My birthday fell on the night of the 2026 ARIAS at the Roundhouse. I also built a second word game, Wordrune, a cousin of alphaguess. - [Ötzi the Iceman](https://adamstoner.com/otzi-the-iceman/) — 22 May 2026: In 1991, hikers in the Alps found a frozen body with a copper axe and a longbow. How scientists worked out who killed Ötzi, written for children. - [Cadence](https://adamstoner.com/cadence/) — 15 May 2026: A slow start to the week and a busy finish, onboarding Think to Omny for Great Escapes, and a brand new dinosaur podcast at Fun Kids. - [The Devil Wears Prada 2](https://adamstoner.com/the-devil-wears-prada-2/) — 10 May 2026: Saw the new Devil Wears Prada film on Saturday and really enjoyed it. Now reading Amy Odell's biography of Anna Wintour. - [Principality Stadium](https://adamstoner.com/principality-stadium/) — 9 May 2026: Wandering across Principality Stadium in Cardiff and playing rugby with Ben Thomas on Monday, then Finchley Studios and Holborn later in the week. - [ARIAS nominations](https://adamstoner.com/arias-nominations/) — 24 April 2026: A week of ARIAS nominations: Great Escapes for Radio Times Moment of the Year, Historic Scotland for Best Commercial Partnership. - [Dragons](https://adamstoner.com/dragons/) — 23 April 2026: In Germany dragons guard treasure, in Asia they control the weather. Why nearly every culture invented one, with author Cressida Cowell, for children. - [This is weeknotes](https://adamstoner.com/this-is-weeknotes/) — 19 April 2026: A week spent building weeknotes.me, a tool for writing and publishing week notes, rather than just chucking them on a blog. - [Bigfoot](https://adamstoner.com/bigfoot/) — 27 February 2026: Bigfoot reports run from Native American stories to Jerry Crew's 1958 footprints. Author Susan Martineau weighs the evidence, written for children. - [Deepfakes](https://adamstoner.com/deepfakes/) — 30 January 2026: Big Ben on fire, a cat playing a violin, Queen Elizabeth rapping. How AI deepfakes are made, and how children can learn to spot one. - [Area 51](https://adamstoner.com/area-51/) — 5 January 2026: A base the US government denied existed, a 1947 crash near Roswell and secret planes over Nevada. What is really inside Area 51, explained for children. - [Octopuses](https://adamstoner.com/octopuses/) — 5 December 2025: Three hearts, blue blood, no bones and nine brains. A science column for children on how octopuses change colour in under a second. - [Dinosaur colours](https://adamstoner.com/dinosaur-colours/) — 7 November 2025: Feathered fossils found in China hold melanosomes, the colour cells that let scientists work out what dinosaurs really looked like. For children. - [Artificial intelligence](https://adamstoner.com/artificial-intelligence/) — 10 October 2025: Computers can do a quintillion calculations a second and beat chess champions, but are they actually clever? Artificial intelligence, for children. - [Black holes](https://adamstoner.com/black-holes/) — 15 September 2025: Black holes form when a star runs out of fuel and gravity wins the tug of war. What the event horizon does to space and time, explained for children. - [First contact](https://adamstoner.com/first-contact/) — 23 June 2025: Scientists have beamed messages into space since the 1970s, including Voyager's Golden Records. Should we shout, or stay quiet? Written for children. - [Weather control](https://adamstoner.com/weather-control/) — 23 May 2025: Cloud seeding kept the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony dry. A column for children on how far weather modification really goes. - [VE Day, eighty years on](https://adamstoner.com/ve-day-eighty-years-on/) — 8 May 2025: On 8th May 1945 nearly 100,000 people packed George Square in Glasgow. How Scotland celebrated VE Day, and how it has marked it since. - [Shapeshifters](https://adamstoner.com/shapeshifters/) — 24 April 2025: Werewolves, skinwalkers and kitsune are myths, but some animals really do change shape. Where the stories came from, and the science, for children. - [Sutton Hoo](https://adamstoner.com/sutton-hoo/) — 28 March 2025: A 27 metre Anglo-Saxon ship full of treasure was found under a Suffolk field in 1939, with no body inside. What the acidic soil tells us, for children. - [The Loch Ness Monster](https://adamstoner.com/the-loch-ness-monster/) — 31 January 2025: More than a thousand reported sightings, a loch over 230 metres deep and still no evidence. How researchers have searched for Nessie, written for children. - [Werewolves](https://adamstoner.com/werewolves/) — 1 November 2023: Cave paintings from 10,000 years ago show part-human, part-animal beings. A science column for children on where werewolf legends began. - [Into the hills](https://adamstoner.com/into-the-hills/) — 1 September 2023: Jason Turnbull films Scotland's hills on a 360 degree camera so veterans with sight loss at Sight Scotland's Hawkhead Centre can walk them again in VR. - [UFOs and UAPs](https://adamstoner.com/ufos-and-uaps/) — 30 June 2023: Why experts say UAP rather than UFO, and what pilot Kenneth Arnold saw over Washington in 1947. Written for children in The Week Junior Science+Nature. - [Top speed](https://adamstoner.com/top-speed/) — 16 June 2023: Usain Bolt ran 100 metres in 9.58 seconds, about 23 mph. Scientists think humans could reach 40 mph. What holds us back, explained for children. - [The Yeti](https://adamstoner.com/the-yeti/) — 27 January 2023: Tales of giants in the Himalayan snow go back over 2,000 years. For children: where the Abominable Snowman came from, and Eric Shipton's 1951 footprints. - [The Kraken](https://adamstoner.com/the-kraken/) — 29 April 2022: Sailors told of a tentacled beast big enough to sink ships. A science column for children on the giant squid behind the Kraken legend. - [Thoughts, stories and ideas: Saying goodbye to Ghost](https://adamstoner.com/ghost/) — 8 April 2022: Tumblr taught me HTML and CSS; Ghost taught me servers, CLI and deployment. After years on the platform, why I moved this site off it and what I lost. - [Thoughts on the consequences of war](https://adamstoner.com/ukraine/) — 31 March 2022: Countless horrors have been inflicted on the citizens of one country by another this month. There are no answers here, just thoughts on the consequences of. - [12 billion miles from Earth: Fun Kids Mission Transmission sends a message](https://adamstoner.com/space/) — 22 February 2022: The day after Mission Transmission, the broadcast was already 12 billion miles out — seven times farther than Neptune, and still travelling at light speed. - [The Overview Effect](https://adamstoner.com/the-overview-effect/) — 18 February 2022: Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt photographed a fully lit Earth in 1972. Why astronauts who see the planet from afar come back changed, for children. - [The multiverse](https://adamstoner.com/the-multiverse/) — 1 February 2022: Hugh Everett's many worlds theory says copies of our universe split off every millisecond. A science column for children on the multiverse. - [Hundreds of voices](https://adamstoner.com/jan21/) — 31 January 2022: 2022 started in the best possible way. Four days into the new year, I launched Mission Transmission on the UK's children's radio station, Fun Kids; our. - [Send your voice to space](https://adamstoner.com/missiontransmission/) — 4 January 2022: Over the past six months, I've been working on something rather special and at 07:30 this morning all was revealed on the national children's radio station. - [Megalodon](https://adamstoner.com/megalodon/) — 1 January 2022: Otodus megalodon died out 3.6 million years ago, yet more than 80% of the ocean is unexplored. Could the biggest shark ever still be out there? - [Andy Warhol](https://adamstoner.com/andy/) — 1 December 2021: His body blue, no blood pressure to speak of, and no pulse to find, artist Andy Warhol was declared dead on arrival at Columbus Hospital in New York City. - [Walking the Ridgeway](https://adamstoner.com/trail/) — 1 November 2021: The story of civilisation is one told entirely on two legs. It's only because our ancestors decided to wander out of Africa 80,000 years ago that you and I. - [Epoch](https://adamstoner.com/epoch/) — 1 October 2021: When astronaut John Glenn commenced mission Mercury-Atlas 6 to become the first American to orbit the Earth, he had something strange strapped to his silver. - [2,572 hours ago: How I spent summer](https://adamstoner.com/return/) — 5 September 2021: After 2,572 hours away: synths, film photography, a time capsule under a log cabin, and what the Voyager Golden Record taught me about making things at all. - [Contents of the Capsule](https://adamstoner.com/capsule/) — 14 June 2021: On June 14th 2021, I buried a time capsule in amongst ten tonnes of hardcore at the end of my garden which would later become the concrete foundations of a. - [I don’t need to have an opinion about everything](https://adamstoner.com/opinion/) — 15 May 2021: Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor and philosopher whose musings on life have transcended centuries. I'm not sure who came up with this next one but I'm. - [Paperless](https://adamstoner.com/paperless/) — 4 May 2021: It's 2018 and I've just purchased a Doxie portable scanner on the recommendation of Ryan. Although it won't happen for another two years, my family are. - [Death](https://adamstoner.com/death/) — 10 April 2021: There are very few events that warrant the complete seizure of attention that the death of Prince Philip had on the news agenda just yesterday. - [Donating 2%](https://adamstoner.com/two/) — 10 January 2021: This essay follows one I wrote in 2019 titled 'Donating 1%'. In it, I explain why I donate 1% of my earnings to not-for-profit causes and list those causes. - [What kills Facebook?](https://adamstoner.com/facebook/) — 7 January 2021: On February 19th 2014, Facebook announced it was buying WhatsApp for $19 billion USD. On January 4th 2021, WhatsApp – now owned by Facebook – announced it. - [1,000 trees and 1.5 degrees](https://adamstoner.com/carbon/) — 20 November 2020: The average UK citizen produces 8.45 metric tonnes of CO2 (tCO2e) per year. The average globally is 4.8. In the next ten years – and in order to prevent a. - [Ethical alternatives to big brands](https://adamstoner.com/ethical/) — 11 November 2020: Liza Minnelli was correct when she sang that 'money makes the world go round' and whether you like it or not, we are all people who have to operate within a. - [Keeping an audio journal](https://adamstoner.com/recordings/) — 19 October 2020: Five years of keeping an audio journal: what started as voice memos emailed to a Tumblr became a habit that taught me most of what I know about making radio. - [Goodbye, Twitter](https://adamstoner.com/twitter/) — 1 September 2020: Eleven years to the minute after my first tweet, every one of them was deleted. Why I left Twitter, and what a decade of posting into the void was worth. - [iPhone SE](https://adamstoner.com/se/) — 13 June 2020: I write about tech principles, not tech gear — so this is unusual. Why the second-generation iPhone SE is the most interesting phone Apple made in 2020. - [A radical future](https://adamstoner.com/radical/) — 10 June 2020: This post was written before the reigniting of the Black Lives Matter movement, but the ideas in this essay – which boil down to one central principle: the. - [How I made this website](https://adamstoner.com/website/) — 30 May 2020: I am aware of the irony in writing about how my website is made on my website but I’ve had another spate of people getting in touch asking exactly that. The. - [Blockchain social media](https://adamstoner.com/blockchain/) — 16 May 2020: What a decentralised, tamper-proof ledger might actually mean for social media: who owns your posts, who can delete them, and who gets to set the rules. - [Stuck at Home](https://adamstoner.com/stuck/) — 2 April 2020: Making Stuck at Home, a daily lockdown podcast for children at Fun Kids: a revolving panel of presenters and something new to try every single day. - [The best journaling app](https://adamstoner.com/journal/) — 28 March 2020: I've tried journaling for years and I've used just about every journaling app there is, even going so far as to build my own. The habit has never stuck until. - [Are you okay?](https://adamstoner.com/ok/) — 17 March 2020: Given all the nastiness in the world right now, it's normal to feel anxious. Earlier in the month, I wrote about how the news can fuel anxiety and gave you. - [Weapons of mass creation](https://adamstoner.com/weapons/) — 15 March 2020: The tools I actually use to make things — hardware, software and the stuff in the bag. Nothing sponsored, nothing gifted, no affiliate links, ever. - [Coronavirus and news anxiety](https://adamstoner.com/coronavirus/) — 4 March 2020: Push notifications for every new case make a virus feel closer than it is. On news anxiety in a pandemic, and how to stay informed without drowning in it. - [All emails answered](https://adamstoner.com/emails/) — 15 February 2020: Since mid-January, I’ve been replying to 100% of my emails. Every single one. It’s something I gleamed from Derek Sivers who over the past ten years has. - [How to become a climate activist](https://adamstoner.com/climate/) — 7 February 2020: A reading and watching list for understanding the climate crisis, the solutions on the table, and the things you can actually do about it. - [Bodies into billboards](https://adamstoner.com/billboards/) — 12 January 2020: I'm not a fan of clothing emblazoned with huge brand names. Jumpers with the company name written across the front or designer logos that occupy a quarter of. - [Community over audience](https://adamstoner.com/community/) — 6 January 2020: If the previous decade was about radically open social media platforms (as Andy McIlwain calls them) I have a strong feeling that this coming decade will be. - [Predictions for 2030](https://adamstoner.com/predictions-for-2030/) — 31 December 2019: Seven predictions for the 2020s: internet shutdowns, the UK and Europe, meat consumption, high-street travel agents, 45ºC summers, and the Turing test. - [Why I left Monzo](https://adamstoner.com/monzo/) — 25 September 2019: Leaving the bank that lives on your smartphone. What Monzo got right, why I consolidated my current accounts anyway, and what the switch actually involved. - [Somebody stole my iMac](https://adamstoner.com/stolen/) — 13 September 2019: Sometime between the hours of 6pm on September 10th and 7:30am on September 11th, my iMac was stolen from my place of work. It was an unimpressive but. - [Recommended coffeehouses](https://adamstoner.com/coffee/) — 31 August 2019: I love coffee far too much. I’ve tried just about every method of at-home brewing and extraction possible and once even tried roasting a batch in my kitchen.. - [Encryption, security, privacy](https://adamstoner.com/security/) — 14 August 2019: Over the past few months I've become increasingly more security and privacy conscious. This has led me to upgrade the tools I use on a daily basis to ones. - [My Morning Routine](https://adamstoner.com/morningroutines/) — 20 July 2019: When you start your day with healthy habits and focus on what is important to you, there’s no denying you’ll get off to a good start. The benefits of a. - [Notebook nineteen](https://adamstoner.com/notebooks/) — 1 July 2019: I carry a notebook everywhere with me. Sure, there’s a cloud-connected notebook on every digital device I have - I use Standard Notes to collect and connect. - [Self-destructing tweets](https://adamstoner.com/tweetdelete/) — 12 June 2019: Twitter prides itself on being current. It is not a social network, it is an information network. It is quick, short, sharp and to-the-point and yet despite. - [Decentralisation of energy generation](https://adamstoner.com/solar/) — 19 February 2017: I'm only just clocking on to how great solar power is. As I write this, it's 9:30 a.m. on February 16th; the sun is pouring through my kitchen window and on. - [Friends of the Earth Clean Air Kit](https://adamstoner.com/pollution/) — 7 February 2017: Pollution related illnesses kill 7 million people each year. That's more people than car accidents, more people than suicides, more people than in wars, and. - [How Bad are Bananas?](https://adamstoner.com/bananas/) — 6 January 2017: I bought a book on a whim last weekend. 'How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything' seemed like a nice, quick, and informative read. - [Pantone Colour of The Year: Greenery](https://adamstoner.com/pantone/) — 8 December 2016: Every year Pantone crowns a Colour of the Year meant to reflect the mood of the moment. On Greenery, and what colour says about the attitudes of its time. - [Michael Acton-Smith of Calm](https://adamstoner.com/calm/) — 17 November 2016: Science has proven that meditation increases immunity, decreases pain, increases positive thinking, decreases depression, increases social connection and. - [Sweatshop-Free Certification](https://adamstoner.com/nosweat/) — 10 October 2016: We're accustomed to seeing a variety of logos on our products. Pick up any item and along with the brand name and variety you'll also be bombarded with other. - [Is Beats 1 Redefining Radio?](https://adamstoner.com/beats1/) — 19 May 2016: A 2016 essay on whether Apple's Beats 1 redefined radio: the always-on global station, what it borrowed from broadcasting, and what it discarded. - [The Core of It: Severn Cider](https://adamstoner.com/severncider/) — 4 May 2016: Through a tiny little Cotswold village and down a single-file country lane exists one of Gloucestershire’s best cider producers. Based in the tiny civil. - [Core Blimey: Award winning cider](https://adamstoner.com/cider/) — 2 April 2016: I’m a bit late letting you all know, but Core Blimey Cider – the University of Gloucestershire’s social-enterprise that I’ve been working on for the past. - [Jem Finer of Longplayer](https://adamstoner.com/longplayer/) — 31 December 2015: When I speak of this thing called Longplayer to people, I tend to get one of two reactions: amazement, or bemusement. Both respectable, because Longplayer.