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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 Malcolm Gladwell’s latest bestseller, Outliers, has its moments. In the end, however, its treatment of why individuals and groups ‘make it’ in the worlds of work and education operates as an up-market compilation of liberal prejudices
Risk-taking, R&D and the recession The woeful level of Western investment in R&D reveals much about the capitalists’ state of mind Today’s economic crisis springs from years and years of under-investment in research and development
Interview on climate change and real responsibility Public guilt about climate change is a waste of energy
The myth that New Labour is pro-nuclear Everyone from big business to greens imagines that British government policy favours nuclear energy. It doesn’t Interview at a conference on government and mobile IT
A Fu Manchu of the dot com age? Claims that Chinese cyber-spies are plotting world domination through the World Wide Web are greatly exaggerated
Now is not the time to lose faith in R&D If regulators get the better of innovators, it will only serve to prolong the recession
Science, engineering and the two Cabinets How many of our leaders in New Labour and the Conservatives have any background in technology or business?
The recession and the Politics of Fumbling The consistent incompetence of politicians does not come by chance: it's a symptom of their lack of a cohering ideology
Airports: the case for three Heathrows Why it makes sense to even out international flights over England’s green and pleasant land |
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