The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge: August 2010

This blog is an archive of my recent science writing, including "Political Science", my monthly column in Tribune. The title is a reference to Jorge Luis Borges.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Tumbleweed

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▼ 2010 (4)
- ▼ August (1)
  - Tumbleweed
- ► April (1)
  - Libel laws: a pain in the back(side)
- ► February (1)
  - Hardcore sceptics land no punches on hard core sci...
- ► January (1)
  - A hindsight test for hacks

► 2009 (11)
- ► December (1)
  - No Christmas cheer for climate science
- ► November (1)
  - How a tabloid sledgehammer smashed Professor Nutt
- ► October (1)
  - Energy: there's no accounting for waste
- ► September (1)
  - Norman Borlaug: an expert in his field
- ► July (2)
  - Putting the spin into global warming
  - Breed a bit less and we might live a bit longer
- ► May (1)
  - We’re all going to die – but probably not of swine...
- ► April (1)
  - The Dr Dolittle of the plant kingdom
- ► March (1)
  - Barrage of concerns over the Severn
- ► February (2)
  - Kicking against the pricks
  - Environmentalists vs mentalists

► 2008 (12)
- ► December (1)
  - Let’s hope Obama’s team of teachers can also do
- ► November (1)
  - How Darwin evolved into the pound in your pocket
- ► October (1)
  - What Palin claims to know is scarier than her igno...
- ► September (1)
  - Particle accelerator will speed up our understandi...
- ► August (1)
  - From bouffant to balderdash in just a few easy ste...
- ► July (1)
  - It's the values of the NHS that matter not the str...
- ► June (1)
  - Biofuels are good science, but bad politics and ec...
- ► May (1)
  - Greedy for plunder: it’s the studios that act like...
- ► April (1)
  - It’s pie in the sky and we need more than windmill...
- ► March (1)
  - Even science can be blinded by philosphical mistak...
- ► February (1)
  - Sorry view of the sky at night
- ► January (1)
  - If it’s in your backyard, you deserve something ou...

► 2007 (13)
- ► December (1)
  - Identity accidents waiting to happen – and they wi...
- ► November (1)
  - The final frontier – and it’s going to stay that w...
- ► October (1)
  - It’s life – but not as we know it
- ► September (1)
  - All in the genes, but taking DNA is also taking li...
- ► August (1)
  - Prescription for customer relations if not exactly...
- ► June (2)
  - Religious right can give you cancer
  - No glowing report for nuclear consultation
- ► April (1)
  - Climate change hard choices: the heat is on
- ► March (1)
  - If you believed they put a man on the moon
- ► February (4)

► 2006 (1)
- ► September (1)
  - Classification and the Celestial Emporium

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Tumbleweed

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