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| Friday 12 March 2010 |
Sons of Cuba: a knockout doc
Andrew Lang’s moving and punchy debut film is a tale of young pugilists’ triumph over adversity in Havana.
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| Monday 8 March 2010 |
What’s wrong with exploiting nature?
Shock-doc Dirty Oil wants us to hate the massive oil operation in Alberta, Canada. But I couldn’t help feeling awestruck.
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| Friday 26 February 2010 |
A curious blend of doom and optimism
Veteran green Stewart Brand’s new book proves a surprisingly useful source of arguments and facts against green dogmas. But critics of environmentalism should still be wary of him.
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| Tuesday 23 February 2010 |
Is this Food, Inc. or Monsters, Inc?
An Oscar-nominated documentary about America’s food industry is simply ‘outrage porn’ for organic eaters.
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| Thursday 18 February 2010 |
America, we need to talk about Jamie
Once upon a time, you kicked us Brits out when we tried to tell you how to run your affairs. It’s time to do the same with Jamie Oliver.
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| Wednesday 10 February 2010 |
Advocacy research: what a filthy habit
New research suggesting ‘third-hand smoke’ is a major health hazard was spurred by policy, not hard science.
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| Friday 29 January 2010 |
A foodie’s guide to the history of humanity
Tom Standage’s fascinating new book reveals how central were the production, transportation and consumption of food to the creation of human societies and human progress.
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| Monday 25 January 2010 |
After the war on salt, the battle against butter
Healthy-living killjoys now even want to ban the yellow creamy stuff that makes food so tasty and enjoyable.
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| Thursday 21 January 2010 |
A romcom with an anti-capitalist touch
Yes, ‘money can’t buy you happiness’ is a cliché, but it’s made to feel fresh in the new George Clooney film Up in the Air.
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| Tuesday 19 January 2010 |
When will the IPCC melt away?
News that Himalayan glaciers are not receding as quickly as claimed shows we need new ways to assess the evidence.
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| Thursday 14 January 2010 |
‘Twelve angry men’ are better than one judge
The start of England’s first judge-only trial for 400 years is yet another blow to everyone’s democratic rights.
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| Wednesday 13 January 2010 |
Put the lunch police back in their box
New research says children’s packed lunches are unhealthy. But what we feed our kids is no business of government.
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| Monday 4 January 2010 |
Eco-lightbulbs: not such a bright idea
Npower’s decision to send out millions of mostly useless lightbulbs shows how demented climate-change targets can be.
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| Wednesday 30 December 2009 |
A pictorial paean to England’s Second City
It’s long been derided as a super-dull city where the inhabitants have irritating accents, but Birmingham was the cradle of industry and has been a hotbed of free thought.
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| Tuesday 22 December 2009 |
Noughtie but nice
There was much to celebrate in this decade: IT and medical breakthroughs and the further erosion of poverty.
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| Friday 11 December 2009 |
The sad decline of David Attenborough
How can someone who once commissioned The Ascent of Man now churn out such human-hating parables?
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| Thursday 10 December 2009 |
Turn the clock back to 1875? No thanks
The crazy, progress-stalling carbon cuts being proposed at Copenhagen just aren’t going to happen – and it’s a good thing too.
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| Thursday 3 December 2009 |
Why animal-free meat is a good idea
As scientists get closer to creating tasty, nutritious in vitro meat, let’s not turn this into another food scare.
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| Tuesday 24 November 2009 |
Cockermouth floods: monsoon as metaphor
These aren’t the worst floods England has seen, yet they are being turned into a symbol of human vulnerability.
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| Thursday 19 November 2009 |
What’s stopping us from feeding the world?
Malthus was wrong about the inevitability of famine, but we still need to ask why so many people don't get enough to eat.
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