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| Thursday 16 May 2013 |
The right to bear
3D-printed arms
The US authorities are armed to the teeth, and we're panicking about citizens printing out rubbish guns?
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| Friday 26 April 2013 |
The next killer app: personalised healthcare
Will our smartphones one day tell us if a heart attack is on its ways, and nanosensors in our bodies dispense the medicine to deal with it? Eric Topol thinks so.
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| Thursday 28 March 2013 |
Big Pharma’s little critics
One defence of drug manufacturers, and three attacks on modern medicine, offer much. But none quite explains Big Pharma’s crisis of scientific and technological innovation.
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| Tuesday 12 March 2013 |
3D printing: neither gimmick nor revolution
ESSAY: While additive manufacturing will be a very useful technology, it cannot transform the fortunes of capitalism.
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| Wednesday 14 November 2012 |
Energy independence: a misguided pipedream
When will presidential candidates and their backers give up on the crazy idea of American going solo on energy?
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| Monday 22 October 2012 |
The idiocy of the New Catastrophists
The disparity between commentators’ warnings of doom and their proposed social solutions is hilarious.
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| Thursday 4 October 2012 |
How to make blackouts a thing of the past
The key to providing for our energy needs is technological development, not sterile rows about energy sources.
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| Monday 3 September 2012 |
Big trouble in the East China Sea
A row between Japan, China and Taiwan over a few small islands reveals the arbitrariness of international relations.
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| Monday 2 July 2012 |
Design alone can’t save UK plc
Making products attractive and user-friendly is a smart idea, but it is no substitute for R&D and investment.
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| Tuesday 27 March 2012 |
Rare earths and
not-so-rare tensions
The US government’s threat to take China to court for hoarding precious elements is more than just a trade dispute.
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| Thursday 2 February 2012 |
All this carbon-cutting is a waste of energy
Neither Boris Johnson nor Ken Livingstone is willing to deliver the uninterrupted, cheap energy London needs.
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| Tuesday 17 January 2012 |
Making a molehill out of a mountain
Clint Eastwood’s biopic of J Edgar Hoover is more about the man’s personal identity than his historical significance.
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| Wednesday 7 December 2011 |
The forgotten history of Pearl Harbor
ESSAY: Japan’s attack on the US 70 years ago was not a surprise, but rather the culmination of imperial rivalry.
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| Monday 10 October 2011 |
Is Britain drowning in too much packaging?
The wrapping that our food, mod-cons and medications come in is not ‘evil’ - it is a product of civilisation.
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| Tuesday 30 August 2011 |
Anna Hazare: apostle of political hygiene
James Woudhuysen reports from India on why the middle-class warriors against corruption aren’t so heroic.
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| Thursday 28 April 2011 |
One year on: learning the lessons of Deepwater Horizon
BP became so obsessed with rebranding itself, adopting irrational management-speak and enforcing petty health-and-safety measures that it overlooked the real safety of its workers.
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| Tuesday 12 April 2011 |
Yuri Gagarin’s brave, brilliant leap into the dark
On the 50th anniversary of the first manned spaceflight, James Woudhuysen praises Gagarin’s daring - and says we need more of it today.
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| Wednesday 30 March 2011 |
Budgeting for a dismal no‑growth future
For all their talk of innovation, the Lib-Cons are more concerned with pinching pennies than investing.
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| Monday 21 February 2011 |
Big Pharma, small ambition
Pfizer’s decision to close its UK research facility was born of an industry-wide angst about medical discovery.
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| Friday 26 November 2010 |
When Churchill starved India
Today, as Britain seeks diplomatic links with India and as Churchill is championed as a hero of multiculturalism, Madhusree Mukerjee’s shocking account of the exploits of the Empire is well worth reading.
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