Map of the world, Herodotus, 450 BC
How much was Europe really the cradle of scientific discovery? Today there's a rush to praise the science of Arabia, India and China. That's long overdue - although Europe's current lack of confidence about its future may explain much of the speed with which it has recently rediscovered the Arab zero, Indian chess and Chinese printing.
Picture: James Woudhuysen

Science

28 March 2012 | Smart Monkey TV

Open innovation, the linear model of innovation, and risk avoidance

Kitchen interview on how companies abdicate responsibility for innovation

27 March 2012 | Smart Monkey TV

Innovation: what is it and who spends money on it?

Kitchen interview on the basics of new products and services, R&D, state intervention and the role of basic scientific research

26 March 2012 | Smart Monkey TV

Innovation: the picture in energy and in pharmaceuticals

Kitchen interview on the barriers – both real and assumed – to progress in the two sectors

11 October 2011 | The Independent

The end is nigh: is survival all we can hope for?

In their policies for energy and for the economy, British politicians hold up continued existence as the maximum goal we should strive for

30 March 2011 | spiked

Budgeting for a dismal no-growth future

For all their talk of innovation, the Lib-Cons are more concerned with pinching pennies than investing

7 October 2010 | spiked

A very conservative approach to innovation

The Lib-Con coalition is more concerned with controlling behaviour than forging a brave, hi-tech future

29 June 2009 | spiked

Let’s go back to the Moon – and beyond

As the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing approaches, backward attitudes here on Earth have tainted our view of lunar exploration

15 June 2009 | spiked

Risk-taking, R&D and the recession

The woeful level of Western investment in R&D reveals much about the capitalists’ state of mind

February 2009 | spiked

Praise for Energise!

A top sociologist has kind words for what is in fact a searing polemic

22 December 2008 | spiked

Global rivalries go green

Climate change will be a central part of government agendas in 2009 - and a rich source of diplomatic squabbles, too

20 November 2007 | The Register

What's Auntie for, exactly?

Instead of a dispassionate approach, the BBC gives us dumbed-down moral absolutes, far-out footage, and a sprinkling of "balance"

10 October 2007 | spiked

Why greens don’t want to ‘solve’ climate change

Environmentalists are cagey about techno-fixes to climate change because berating mankind for its impact on nature is their raison d'être

5 February 2007 | Spiked

A man-made morality tale

How the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fairly sober summary of climate science has been spun to tell a story of Fate, Doom and human folly. Co-written with Joe Kaplinsky

27 October 2006 | IT Week

How IT will cook up a feast for the eyes

Trends in computing mean developers will soon have to add visual literacy to their skills

4 September 2006 | 20 years ago: Campaign, September 1986

The legacies of a high-tech holocaust

Two decades have confirmed that tech guru James Bellini's alarmism about chemical toxicity was always misplaced 32kB

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